H13Q:
Shale Science: Coupled Processes in Hydraulic Fracturing and CO2 Sequestration II

Session ID#: 4926

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3010 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Robert P Ewing, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Primary Convener:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Co-conveners:  Stéphanie Vialle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia, Qinhong Hu, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stéphanie Vialle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
3902 Creep and deformation [MINERAL PHYSICS]
5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
5114 Permeability and porosity [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
Virtual Option?: Yes
Swirl Theme: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H13Q-01
The Impacts of Rock Composition and Properties on the Ability to Stimulate Production of Ultra-Low Permeability Oil and Gas Reservoirs Through Hydraulic Fracturing (Invited) (5949)
Mark D Zoback, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, Hiroki Sone, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States, Arjun H Kohli, Stanford University, Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford, United States and Robert J Heller, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
H13Q-02
Influence of Rock Fabric on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation: Laboratory Study (Invited) (2799)
Sergei A Stanchits1, Jean Desroches2, Jeffrey Burghardt1, Aniket Surdi1 and Nick Whitney1, (1)TerraTek A Schlumberger Co., Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)Schlumberger, Paris, France
H13Q-03
Effect of Shear Slip on Fault Permeability in Shale Reservoir Rocks (25970)
Julia S Reece, Texas A & M University, College Station, United States, Mark D Zoback, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States and Arjun H Kohli, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
H13Q-04
Hydraulic Aperture Reduction of Shale Fractures Due to Mechanical Stressing, with Characterization of Physical Fracture Evolution Using Comuted Tomography (10508)
Dustin Crandall, Magdalena Gill and Johnathan Moore, National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States
H13Q-05
A Study on the Effect of Fracture Aperture Variability on Advective Transport in aFractured Shale using Discrete Fracture Network Modeling (29408)
Nataliia Makedonska, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Satish Karra, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Scott L Painter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Hari Selvi Viswanathan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States and Carl W Gable, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
H13Q-06
Experimental Characterization and Modeling of the Fracturing Behavior of Marcellus Shale (3790)
Congrui Jin1, Weixin Li1, Bradley B Sageman2 and Gianluca Cusatis1, (1)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (2)Northwestern University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States
H13Q-07
The U.S. Shale Oil and Gas Resource – a Multi-Scale Analysis of Productivity (8111)
Francis O'sullivan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
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