Title: Hydraulic fracture height in gas shale reservoirs
Abstract: While there are many decades of experience with hydraulic fracturing in the petroleum industry, the recent exposure of the general public to this technology, particularly as practiced with large volume water fractures in the gas shales, has resulted in considerable fear and misunderstanding of what is occurring downhole. Fortunately, the industry has been studying the problem of fracture height growth for several decades and has been monitoring fractures with tiltmeters for two decades and with microseismicity for over one decade. This compendium of knowledge and measurements shows that the common practice of multi‐stage stimulations of shale reservoirs in horizontal wells is not a threat to groundwater via fracture pathways.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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