The dilemma of soaking a hydraulically fractured horizontal shale well prior to flowback–A decade literature review

R Shaibu, B Guo - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Water soaking a horizontal shale well is a practice whereby operators in shale gas and oil
production shut-in a well after a multistage hydraulic fracture treatment. By this practice, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulation of fracturing and imbibition in shale oil horizontal wells

RL Xu, TK Guo, XJ Xue, WB Chen, ZQ Qu, M Chen… - Petroleum Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The shale oil reservoir is characterized by tight lithology and ultra-low permeability, and its
efficient exploitation requires the technology of multi-stage and multi-cluster hydraulic …

Simulation of Two-Phase Flowback Phenomena in Shale Gas Wells.

Y Duan, Z Zhu, H He, G Xuan… - Fluid Dynamics & …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
The gas-water two-phase flow occurring as a result of fracturing fluid flowback phenomena
is known to impact significantly the productivity of shale gas well. In this work, this two-phase …

Shale oil shut-in and flowback mechanism and optimization strategy

Z Lu, X Li, M Che, X Li - Journal of Energy …, 2024 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Shut-in and flowback are critical stages following hydraulic fracturing in shale oil wells.
Researching the distribution of reservoir pressure and fluid flow mechanism during shut-in …

Simulation of Temporary Plugging Effect in Hydraulic Fracturing With Complex Natural Fractures

Y Li, F He, W Yu - ARMA US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics …, 2021 - onepetro.org
Multi-stage hydraulic fracturing has been a key technology for the economical development
of unconventional reservoirs. However, recent advance diagnostic observations indicate that …