[HTML][HTML] Rock brittleness indices and their applications to different fields of rock engineering: A review

F Meng, LNY Wong, H Zhou - Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Brittleness is an important parameter controlling the mechanical behavior and failure
characteristics of rocks under loading and unloading conditions, such as fracability …

Natural fractures in shale: A review and new observations

JFW Gale, SE Laubach, JE Olson… - AAPG …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Natural fractures have long been suspected as a factor in production from shale reservoirs
because gas and oil production commonly exceeds the rates expected from low-porosity …

The brittleness indices used in rock mechanics and their application in shale hydraulic fracturing: A review

D Zhang, PG Ranjith, MSA Perera - Journal of petroleum science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Brittleness is commonly used to characterize the possible failure features in rocks, quantified
by the brittleness index (BI (26) BIs, the applicability of each BI should be well understood to …

A practical use of shale petrophysics for stimulation design optimization: All shale plays are not clones of the Barnett Shale

R Rickman, M Mullen, E Petre, B Grieser… - SPE Annual Technical …, 2008 - onepetro.org
The most common fallacy in the quest for the optimum stimulation treatment in shale plays
across the country is to treat them all just like the Barnett Shale. There is no doubt that the …

Mechanical properties of shale-gas reservoir rocks—Part 2: Ductile creep, brittle strength, and their relation to the elastic modulus

H Sone, MD Zoback - Geophysics, 2013 - library.seg.org
We studied the elastic moduli, ductile creep behavior, and brittle strength of shale-gas
reservoir rocks from Barnett, Haynesville, Eagle Ford, and Fort St. John shale in a series of …

What controls the mechanical properties of shale rocks?–Part I: Strength and Young's modulus

E Rybacki, A Reinicke, T Meier, M Makasi… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
We performed mechanical tests on several, mainly European black shales with different
mineralogical composition, porosity and maturity. The uniaxial and triaxial compressive …

Shale brittleness evaluation based on energy balance analysis of stress-strain curves

IR Kivi, M Ameri, H Molladavoodi - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Brittleness is a key mechanical characteristic of rock and critical to various engineering
practices particularly to design efficient fracturing stimulation of unconventional shale gas …

Fracability evaluation in shale reservoirs-an integrated petrophysics and geomechanics approach

X Jin, SN Shah, JC Roegiers, B Zhang - SPE Hydraulic Fracturing …, 2014 - onepetro.org
The identification of fracture barrier is important for optimizing horizontal well drilling,
hydraulic fracturing, and protecting fresh aquifer from contamination. The word" brittleness" …

Stress path analysis for characterization of in situ stress state and effect of reservoir depletion on present-day stress magnitudes: reservoir geomechanical modeling in …

A Radwan, S Sen - Natural Resources Research, 2021 - Springer
A reservoir geomechanical modeling has been attempted in the hydrocarbon-bearing
Miocene formations in the offshore Badri field, Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Pore pressure …

Machine learning technique for the prediction of shear wave velocity using petrophysical logs

M Anemangely, A Ramezanzadeh, H Amiri… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Compressional wave velocity (Vp) and shear wave velocity (Vs) are widely used as quick,
easy to use, and cost-effective means of determining the mechanical properties of …