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Author:

Wang, Song (Wang, Song.) | Zhou, Jian (Zhou, Jian.) (Scholars:周剑) | Zhang, Luqing (Zhang, Luqing.) | Han, Zhenhua (Han, Zhenhua.)

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Abstract:

Hydraulic fracturing is a key technical means for stimulating tight and low permeability reservoirs to improve the production, which is widely employed in the development of unconventional energy resources, including shale gas, shale oil, gas hydrate, and dry hot rock. Although significant progress has been made in the simulation of fracturing a single well using two-dimensional Particle Flow Code (PFC2D), the understanding of the multi-well hydraulic fracturing characteristics is still limited. Exploring the mechanisms of fluid-driven fracture initiation, propagation and interaction under multi-well fracturing conditions is of great theoretical significance for creating complex fracture networks in the reservoir. In this study, a series of two-well fracturing simulations by a modified fluid-mechanical coupling algorithm were conducted to systematically investigate the effects of injection sequence and well spacing on breakdown pressure, fracture propagation and stress shadow. The results show that both injection sequence and well spacing make little difference on breakdown pressure but have huge impacts on fracture propagation pressure. Especially under hydrostatic pressure conditions, simultaneous injection and small well spacing increase the pore pressure between two injection wells and reduce the effective stress of rock to achieve lower fracture propagation pressure. The injection sequence can change the propagation direction of hydraulic fractures. When the in-situ stress is hydrostatic pressure, simultaneous injection compels the fractures to deflect and tend to propagate horizontally, which promotes the formation of complex fracture networks between two injection wells. When the maximum in-situ stress is in the horizontal direction, asynchronous injection is more conducive to the parallel propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures. Nevertheless, excessively small or large well spacing reduces the number of fracture branches in fracture networks. In addition, the stress shadow effect is found to be sensitive to both injection sequence and well spacing.

Keyword:

well spacing discrete element method injection sequence stress shadow effect modified fluid-mechanical coupling algorithm hydraulic fracturing

Author Community:

  • [ 1 ] [Wang, Song]Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Shale Gas & Geoengn, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
  • [ 2 ] [Zhang, Luqing]Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Shale Gas & Geoengn, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
  • [ 3 ] [Han, Zhenhua]Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Shale Gas & Geoengn, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Wang, Song]Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
  • [ 5 ] [Wang, Song]Chinese Acad Sci, Innovat Acad Earth Sci, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
  • [ 6 ] [Zhang, Luqing]Chinese Acad Sci, Innovat Acad Earth Sci, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
  • [ 7 ] [Han, Zhenhua]Chinese Acad Sci, Innovat Acad Earth Sci, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
  • [ 8 ] [Zhou, Jian]Beijing Univ Technol, Minist Educ, Key Lab Urban Secur & Disaster Engn, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China

Reprint Author's Address:

  • [Zhang, Luqing]Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Shale Gas & Geoengn, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China;;[Zhang, Luqing]Chinese Acad Sci, Innovat Acad Earth Sci, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China

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Source :

ENERGIES

Year: 2020

Issue: 18

Volume: 13

3 . 2 0 0

JCR@2022

ESI Discipline: ENGINEERING;

ESI HC Threshold:115

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 14

SCOPUS Cited Count: 16

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

WanFang Cited Count:

Chinese Cited Count:

30 Days PV: 8

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