Shale gas and non-aqueous fracturing fluids: Opportunities and challenges for supercritical CO2

RS Middleton, JW Carey, RP Currier, JD Hyman… - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Hydraulic fracturing of shale formations in the United States has led to a domestic energy
boom. Currently, water is the only fracturing fluid regularly used in commercial shale oil and …

The successful development of gas and oil resources from shales in North America

DJ Soeder - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
The hydrocarbon resources of shale gas and tight oil have made a significant impact on
North American energy reserves over the past decade. The production of so-called …

[HTML][HTML] A review on hydraulic fracturing of unconventional reservoir

Q Li, H Xing, J Liu, X Liu - Petroleum, 2015 - Elsevier
Hydraulic fracturing is widely accepted and applied to improve the gas recovery in
unconventional reservoirs. Unconventional reservoirs to be addressed here are with very …

Hydraulic fracturing fluid migration in the subsurface: A review and expanded modeling results

DT Birdsell, H Rajaram, D Dempsey… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the transport of hydraulic fracturing (HF) fluid that is injected into the deep
subsurface for shale gas extraction is important to ensure that shallow drinking water …

Hydraulic fracturing: a toxicological threat for groundwater and drinking-water?

BC Gordalla, U Ewers, FH Frimmel - Environmental earth sciences, 2013 - Springer
This paper deals with the possible impact of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), employed in the
exploitation of unconventional shale gas and tight gas reservoirs, on groundwater, which is …

Hydraulic fracturing in unconventional gas reservoirs: Risks in the geological system, part 2: Modelling the transport of fracturing fluids, brine and methane

A Kissinger, R Helmig, A Ebigbo, H Class… - Environmental earth …, 2013 - Springer
Hydraulic fracturing is a method used for the production of unconventional gas resources.
Huge amounts of so-called fracturing fluid (10,000–20,000 m 3) are injected into a gas …

Hydraulic fracturing offers view of microbial life in the deep terrestrial subsurface

PJ Mouser, M Borton, TH Darrah… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are increasingly used for recovering energy
resources in black shales across the globe. Although newly drilled wells are providing …

A new CFD approach for proppant transport in unconventional hydraulic fractures

Y Suri, SZ Islam, M Hossain - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
For hydraulic fracturing design in unconventional reservoirs, the existing proppant transport
models ignore the fluid leak-off effect from the fracture side wall and the effect of fracture …

Theoretical and experimental validation of mining-enhanced permeability for simultaneous exploitation of coal and gas

H Xie, J Xie, M Gao, R Zhang, H Zhou, F Gao… - Environmental Earth …, 2015 - Springer
Simultaneous recovery of coal and methane is a promising solution for making reasonable
use of energy resources and preventing gas disasters. Coal mining produces an effect that …

Nonlinear autoregressive neural networks to predict hydraulic fracturing fluid leakage into shallow groundwater

R Taherdangkoo, A Tatomir, M Taherdangkoo, P Qiu… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells is an essential technology for the exploitation of
unconventional resources, but led to environmental concerns. Fracturing fluid upward …