H51Q:
Fracturing and Near-Fracture Processes I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Timothy J Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Laura J Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue Univ, Department of Physics, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Peter S Nico, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Peter S Nico, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Large Scale Geologic Controls on Hydraulic Stimulation
John David McLennan and Ravi Bhide, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
8:20 AM
 
Growth Kinematics of Opening-Mode Fractures
Peter Eichhubl, Yaser Alzayer, Stephen Laubach and Andras Fall, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
8:35 AM
 
The Influence of Fracture Network Geometry on Production from Unconventional Reservoirs
Thomas Doe, Golder Associates Inc., Redmond, WA, United States
8:55 AM
 
Proppant effects on maintaining fracture permeability in shale.
Mathew D Ingraham, Stephen J Bauer, Daniel Bolintineanu, Rekha R Rao, Jeremy B Lechman and Joseph A Romero, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
9:10 AM
 
Comparison of Heterogeneously-Propped Hydraulic Fractures for Vertical and Lateral Wells
Joseph Morris1,2 and Nikita Chugunov2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge, MA, United States
9:25 AM
 
Coupling Hydraulic Fracturing Propagation and Gas Well Performance for Simulation of Production in Unconventional Shale Gas Reservoirs
Philip H. Winterfeld1, Yu-Shu Wu1, Cong Wang1, Yonghong Wang2, Demin Chen2, Congbin Yin3 and Zhengfu Pan3, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (2)CNPC USA, Houston, TX, United States, (3)CNPC Chaunqing Drilling Company Limited, Chengdu, China
9:40 AM
 
Numerical Simulation of Subsurface Transport and Groundwater Impacts from Hydraulic Fracturing of Tight/Shale Gas Reservoirs
Matthew T Reagan, George J Moridis and Noel D Keen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
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