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 …

Multi-cluster fracturing in horizontal wells is an important stimulation technology for
unconventional tight reservoirs. The interference among multiple simultaneously growing …

Glutenite is an important unconventional tight oil and gas reservoir. Due to the glutenite
formation with strong heterogeneity and variable lithology which contains a large number of …

A propagating fluid driven fracture in a rock mass is expected to interact with geological
interfaces on a wide variety of length scales. The vertical growth of hydraulic fractures in …

Hydraulic fracturing has been widely used in tight reservoir to generate fractures to improve
the conductivity and productivity. However, due to combined effects of volcanism, tectonic …

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 …

Subsurface energy storage in depleted petroleum reservoirs is a promising technique to
balance and optimize the utilization of energy resources. In this work, we numerically …

Geothermal energy, featured as a renewable low‐carbon energy resource, exhibits great
potential in mitigating global warming. However, efficient mining of geothermal energy from …

The shale oil reservoirs of the Lucaogou Formation in the Jimsar Sag developed a large
number of natural fractures and thin interlayers. The expansion of hydraulic fractures is full of …

Hydraulic fracture propagation is a coupled solid-fluid problem involving moving
boundaries. The boundary element method is an efficient way to model it in elastic media; …