Hydraulic fracturing has been used in cave mining for preconditioning the orebody following
its successful application in the oil and gas industries. In this paper, the state of the art of …

The development of low-permeability oil and gas resources presents a significant challenge
to traditional development methods. To address the problem of “no injection and no …

This work introduces 3D lattice modeling of hydraulic fracturing initiation and near-wellbore
propagation for different perforation models, including spiral perforation, oriented perforation …

Horizontal well oriented perforation fracturing is a common technique for unconventional oil
and gas production. With the wide application of this technology, issues such as uneven …

Understanding the hydraulic fracture (HF) re-orientation mechanism from artificial
weaknesses is critical to screen-out prevention in the petroleum industry and caveability …

Tracer transport in hydraulic fractures is substantially affected by the rock matrix surrounding
them. Nevertheless, there is not yet an expression in literature to address the relationship …

Hydraulic fracture propagation behavior and geometry through perforated vertical wellbores
are studied by a series of servo-controlled tri-axial large-scale fracturing experiments. The …

In this study, the discrete lattice simulation of multi-scale fracture growth in layered media is
conducted and validated against fracturing laboratory observation and field micro-seismic …

Numerical modeling of salt tectonics is a rapidly evolving field; however, the constitutive
equations to model long-term rock salt rheology in nature still remain controversial. Firstly …

Hydraulic fracturing technology plays a key role in the in-situ exploitation of oil shale. A
mechanism for generating complex fracture networks in oil shale reservoirs with randomly …