Leading the Way in Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Technologies
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: reservoir geomechanics; reservoir stimulation; reservoir seismicity; numerical simulations; experimental rock mechanics; hydraulic fracturing; poroelasticity; thermo-poroelasticity
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Dear Colleagues,
Economic production from unconventional petroleum and geothermal reservoirs (such as EGS and Superhot EGS) relies on engineering a reservoir through reservoir stimulation while minimizing the risk of felt seismicity. The stimulation results are often poorly predictable because of the multiscale, multiphysics processes that operate in the target rock mass with complex textures and variable in situ stress conditions. Much effort has been spent in the last decade to improve the understanding and design of stimulation treatments. This Special Issue will draw upon recent advances to characterize the state of the art and to help to chart a course for future research activities. Works pertaining to empirical, analytical, numerical, and/or experimental developments related to reservoir geomechanics with emphasis on injection/extraction and stimulation in reservoirs, the impact of coupled processes, the role of heterogeneous and anisotropic rock fabric, dynamics of complex fracture networks, frac hits, proppant transport, and settling are of particular interest to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Ahmad Ghassemi
Dr. Zhi Ye
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydraulic fracturing
- hydraulic fracture monitoring
- frac hits
- refracturing
- natural fractures
- hydraulic fracture containment
- stress shadow
- fracture network
- net pressure
- proppant transport
- stress rotation
- thermo-poroelasticity
- unconventional petroleum reservoirs
- enhanced geothermal systems (unconventional geothermal reservoirs)
- GeoTES
- superhot Geothermal
