Abstract
Improving the effectiveness of hydraulic fracturing requires careful selection of design parameters to achieve specific optimum hydraulic fracture dimensions. However, available optimization approaches solely rely on the assumption which implies the existence of the hydraulic fractures only. But this approach may be biased in case of reservoirs with natural fractures. Hence, assessment of the complex fracture network is crucial to examine the potential impacts of it on the production. Most widely accepted unified fracture design (UFD) method does not encounter the effect of natural fractures; therefore optimum dimensionless number, which was derived as 1.6, may change for the reservoirs with natural fractures system. The objective of this study was to extend the conventional UFD method and come up with a new dimensionless number which incorporates the effects of the natural fractures. Obtained results satisfy the intuitive expectations that natural fractures alter the conventional dimensionless number.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 82nd EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2021 |
| Publisher | European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE |
| Pages | 4448-4452 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781713841449 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |