A comprehensive review of proppant embedment in shale reservoirs: Experimentation, modeling and future prospects

A Katende, L O'Connell, A Rich, J Rutqvist… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a comprehensive review on the application of proppants to maintain
fracture permeability over the lifetime of a well based on published observations from …

[HTML][HTML] Micro-proppant placement in hydraulic and natural fracture stimulation in unconventional reservoirs: A review

M Aslannezhad, A Kalantariasl, Z You, S Iglauer… - Energy Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Tight hydrocarbon reservoirs require stimulation to improve the recovery of oil and gas
resources. Hydraulic fracturing is a technique extensively employed in the oil and gas …

Advective-diffusive-reactive solute transport due to non-Newtonian fluid flows in a fracture surrounded by a tight porous medium

M Dejam - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019 - Elsevier
A mathematical model is presented for advective-diffusive-reactive solute transport due to
non-Newtonian fluid flows in a fracture surrounded by a tight porous medium. The …

[HTML][HTML] A pore-scale assessment of the dynamic response of forced convection in porous media to inlet flow modulations

R Habib, N Karimi, B Yadollahi… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
An increasing number of technologies require prediction of unsteady forced convection in
porous media when the inlet flow is unsteady. To gain further insight into this problem, the …

Temperature transient analysis of naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs

C Wei, Y Liu, Y Deng, S Cheng, H Hassanzadeh - SPE Journal, 2022 - onepetro.org
A potential approach to develop geothermal energy is by producing low-to-medium
temperature fluids from naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs (NFGRs). Pressure …

Gas-phase production equation for CBM reservoirs: Interaction between hydraulic fracturing and coal orthotropic feature

Z Sun, B Huang, Y Liu, Y Jiang, Z Zhang, M Hou… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficient development of coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs entails the accurate
evaluation of production behavior, particularly for the gas phase performance. However …

A DFN based 3D numerical approach for modeling coupled groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured rock mass

X Li, D Li, Y Xu, X Feng - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding of water and mass transfer in fractured rock mass is essential to the safety
and environmental problems associated with rock engineering. It is still challenging to …

Numerical simulations of proppant deposition and transport characteristics in hydraulic fractures and fracture networks

X Wang, J Yao, L Gong, H Sun, Y Yang, L Zhang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Proppants are used to resist fracture closure during hydraulic fracking treatments.
Understand the proppant transport and distribution characteristics in fracture and fracture …

Analytical well-test model for hydraulicly fractured wells with multiwell interference in double porosity gas reservoirs

C Wei, Y Liu, Y Deng, S Cheng… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2022 - Elsevier
Interference resulting from infill wells in multiwell systems becomes a common issue in
interpreting well tests data from hydraulicly fractured wells in tight carbonate gas reservoirs …

Evaluation of connectivity characteristics on the permeability of two‐dimensional fracture networks using geological entropy

Z Ye, X Fan, J Zhang, J Sheng, Y Chen… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A systematic approach has been developed to estimate the relationship between the
permeability and connectivity of two‐dimensional fracture networks, in which the network …