Along with horizontal drilling techniques, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing has improved shale
gas production significantly in past decades. In order to understand the mechanism of …

Since there is a growing interest in driving the digital transformation of the construction
industry, the goal of this paper is to provide a full picture and understanding of the emerging …

Shale reservoirs are extensively exploited using hydraulic fracturing, which forms multiple
cracks that connect with the existing natural fractures to create a continuous path for the gas …

This paper presents a hybrid method for modeling hydraulic fracture propagation in an
unconventional shale formation with frictional and cemented natural fractures. The hybrid …

With the continuous advancement of oil and gas field development technologies, there has
been an increasing focus on the exploration of unconventional oil and gas resources, such …

The presence of clays in hydrocarbon reservoirs challenges the producible amount of oil
and gas significantly. Therefore, this study reports a detailed quantitative characterization of …

This work extends the hydro-mechanical phase-field fracture model to non-isothermal
conditions with micromechanics based poroelasticity, which degrades Biot's coefficient not …

The competitive initiation from multiple perforation tunnels and the non-planar propagation
near the wellbore for different perforation technologies are not fully understood. Laboratory …

Horizontal well-staged fracturing is a key technology for efficient shale gas production.
However, stress shadows between clusters make it difficult to synchronize the initiation and …

Activating closed natural fractures (NFs) in hot dry rock (HDR) reservoirs is a critical way to
improve fluid conductivity and stimulate production. However, the current hydraulic fracturing …