Reservoir stimulation and artificial lift are the two main activities of the production engineer
in the petroleum and related industries. The main purpose of stimulation is to enhance the …

Production logs from more than 100 horizontal shale wells in multiple basins have been
acquired and interpreted. An evaluation of this data set confirms that production is highly …

This book explains how to properly engineer and optimize a hydraulically fractured well by
selecting the right materials, evaluating the economic benefits, and ensuring the safety and …

In this paper, we present the fracture-compliance method, a technique for estimating the
closure pressure from diagnostic fracture-injection tests (DFITs). The method is based on the …

Estimating in situ stress based on hydraulic fracturing data typically depends on
interpretation of the breakdown, secondary breakdown ('reopening') and shut-in pressure …

Hydraulic fracturing tests with mud is the most inexpensive method for determining the minor
in situ horizontal stress in deep petroleum wells. This paper presents a unified model of …

This paper compares height, length, width, and pressure data from a laboratory experiment
to predictions from a three-dimensional (3D) planar hydraulic fracture model for the case of a …

This paper deals with the construction of the tip asymptotes for a hydraulic fracture deflating
in a permeable elastic medium. Specifically, the paper describes the changing nature of the …

In 2017 and 2019, injection testing was carried out in three zones in a vertical well in granite
at the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy site near Milford, Utah, USA …

Fracture injection/shut-in tests are commonly used to measure the state of stress in the
subsurface. Injection creates a hydraulic fracture (or in some cases, opens a preexisting …