Shear stimulation, so‐called hydroshearing, is believed to reactivate critical or near‐critical
preexisting fractures by pressurized fluid injection, causing them to slip and dilate for …

In petroleum industry, creep behavior of rocks can affect the fracture conductivity, well
productivity and ultimate recovery of the reservoir, in shale formations in particular. To get a …

Optimizing proppant-pack conductivity in a hydraulic fracture is of critical importance to
sustaining effective and economical production of petroleum hydrocarbons. In this study, a …

The destabilization of proppant packs during flowback, leading to undesirable
consequences such as choke points (fracture closure near the wellbore) and proppant …

This paper presents the theoretical formulation and numerical implementation of an
anisotropic damage model for materials with intrinsic transverse isotropy. Crack initiation …

Radial drilling-fracturing, the integration of radial drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is an
innovative approach to develop low permeability, thin target layer and naturally fractured …

As an unconventional rock, shale contains all the features of coalbed and tight sandstone
specified as gas-adsorption capacity, microscale and nanoscale porosity, and extremely low …

Permeability enhancement through shear slip has been considered as standard treatment of
engineered geothermal systems (EGS). The process reactivates pre-existing fractures …

Analyzing gas flow behavior is important for production prediction in heterogeneous
fractured shale reservoirs, which is complex due to the presences of nanopores and high …

The shearing of pre-existing fractures plays an important role in the permeability
enhancement of shale reservoirs during hydraulic fracturing or refracturing treatments. The …