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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Robert P Ewing, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Primary Conveners:  James W Carey, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Stephanie Vialle, Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Qinhong Hu, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States and Thomas A Dewers, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Stephanie Vialle, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States; Curtin University, Dept. of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
The Impacts of Rock Composition and Properties on the Ability to Stimulate Production of Ultra-Low Permeability Oil and Gas Reservoirs Through Hydraulic Fracturing
Mark D Zoback1, Hiroki Sone2, Arjun H Kohli3 and Robert J Heller1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States
2:00 PM
 
Influence of Rock Fabric on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation: Laboratory Study
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
2:20 PM
 
Effect of Shear Slip on Fault Permeability in Shale Reservoir Rocks
Julia S Reece1, Mark D Zoback2 and Arjun H Kohli2, (1)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
2:35 PM
 
Hydraulic Aperture Reduction of Shale Fractures Due to Mechanical Stressing, with Characterization of Physical Fracture Evolution Using Comuted Tomography
Dustin Crandall, Magdalena Gill and Johnathan Moore, National Energy Technology Laboratory Morgantown, Morgantown, WV, United States
2:50 PM
 
A Study on the Effect of Fracture Aperture Variability on Advective Transport in aFractured Shale using Discrete Fracture Network Modeling
Nataliia Makedonska, Satish Karra, Scott L Painter, Hari Viswanathan and Carl W Gable, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
3:05 PM
 
Experimental Characterization and Modeling of the Fracturing Behavior of Marcellus Shale
Congrui Jin, Weixin Li, Bradley B Sageman and Gianluca Cusatis, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
3:20 PM
 
The U.S. Shale Oil and Gas Resource – a Multi-Scale Analysis of Productivity
Francis O'sullivan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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