[PDF] Top 20 Studies of Fracture Damage Caused by Proppant Embedment Phenomenon in Shale Rock

... Effective packed fracture with the proppant for cylindrical steel plugs and shale rock 449. 450[r] ... See full document

... to fracture among the samples ...Previous studies have shown that the conductivity loss presents an exponential decline curve at increasing closure stress (Guzek, ...Marcellus shale samples, at low ... See full document

... exacerbating proppant crushing/rearrangement and proppant embedment into the fracture face (Terracina et ...investigated proppant embedment in shales, in the absence of fluids, ... See full document

... way rock fails enabling the creation of a fracture depends on the stress distribution downhole in the field, and also on the mineralogy distribution of the ...the fracture face. To understand ... See full document

... renewable and non-renewable natural resources such as air, water, land and all forms of life; the social, political, cultural, economic and working conditions that affect the nature of an individual or community; and ... See full document

... The definition of a producer under the Act includes a wider group of parties and a producer does not mean only the party which is engaged in production – a manufacturer. The purpose of defining a wider group of ... See full document

... non-linear fracture criterion with several attractive properties ...cohesive fracture law, an application of Rice’s J-integral [Rice, 1968] gives the plane- strain critical energy release rate at crack ... See full document

... Explosions Liability for Damage Caused by Concussion SMU Law Review Volume 3 | Issue 4 Article 5 1949 Explosions Liability for Damage Caused by Concussion Eldon R Vaughan Follow this and additional wo[.] ... See full document

... swelling rock in southern Ontario and the negative effects on buried structures has been known for decades, with one of the earliest known cases being the Wheel Pit at the Niagara Power Plant (Lee and Lo ...this ... See full document

... open fracture due to the cubic law, but flow fluids relatively much more slowly through a packed bed of proppant that behaves like a layer of porous ...vertical proppant placement in very low ... See full document

... seal rock are also important, as this seal rock provides the pressure necessary for successful carbon storage and recovery of ...seal rock integrity is compromised, the result could be a permeable ... See full document

... outcrop studies as analogs for conceptual models, seismic attributes used as fracture drivers ...of fracture intensity which can be populated into a geological framework ...the fracture data, ... See full document

... empirical rock-physics relationships to differential effective medium theories were applied to estimate bulk and shear moduli, as follows (a) empirical correlations based on acoustic-wave velocity measurements, ... See full document

... of rock engineering processes such as drilling, blasting, mining and mineral ...processing. Rock dynamic fracture mechanics methods are required to characterize the rock behavior in these ... See full document

... In this model, a rock is idealized as an elastic material with N groups of microcracks. Each microcrack group is characterized by its unit vector n (i) , the average microcrack length 2c (i) and the number ρ (i) ... See full document

... Barnett Shale, although we note that Simon (2005, ...that fracture apertures in the Barnett Shale may follow a power-law distribu- tion where, without stimulation, only the largest frac- tures are ... See full document

... potentialities. Rock-Eval pyrolysis, stable carbon isotopes of crude oils and related source rocks revealed extracts Organic-rich rocks with excellent potential to generate mainly ...Neocomian shale that ... See full document

... hydraulic fracture is generally formed by pumping the fracturing fluid into the wellbore at high ...the fracture propped by sand to allow the hydrocarbon to flow and keep the fracture from ...9.5% ... See full document

... PYRITIC SHALE INTEGRATION INTO WASTE ROCK MANAGEMENT, ...waste rock were excavated and deposited on the surface during the past 30 ...waste rock dumps constructed near the open ...pyritic ... See full document

... surrounding rock to dramatically and fiercely extrude or ...surrounding rock leads to the release of elastic strain energy stored in rock mass, and thus the burst, spalling, ejection and even throw ... See full document