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8 - Horizontal Drilling and Multi-Stage Hydraulic Fracturing

from Part II - Stimulating Production from Unconventional Reservoirs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2019

Mark D. Zoback  and
Arjun H. Kohli
Mark D. Zoback
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
Arjun H. Kohli
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

In this chapter we review several key aspects of horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. While this is not an engineering text, it is necessary to briefly cover several operational procedures associated with horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing to provide readers with a basic understanding of what is being typically done in the field, and why. More detailed information about the topics in this chapter is available from Economides & Nolte (2000), Ahmed & Meehan (2016), Smith & Montgomery (2015) and other sources. Detournay (2016) offers a comprehensive review of the mechanics of hydraulic fracturing from the perspective of theoretical fracture mechanics.

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Unconventional Reservoir Geomechanics
Shale Gas, Tight Oil, and Induced Seismicity
 , pp. 233 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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