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Numerical Simulations of Fracturing in Petroleum Engineering
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Numerical Simulations of Fracturing in Petroleum Engineering

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 1103

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Hamid Rahnema

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Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, USA
Interests: reservoir characterization; reservoir simulation
Dr. Seyyed Mobeen Fatemi

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Transport in Porous Media (TiPM) Research Group, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran P.O. Box 11365-8639, Iran
Interests: conformance control; preformed particle gels; formation damage; microfluidics; interfacial phenomena; multiphase flow in porous media; transport in porous media; enhanced oil recovery
Dr. Sajjad Esmaeilpour

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Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Department, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, 87801, USA
Interests: formation evaluation and petrophysics; reservoir geomechanics; petroleum geology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid development of unconventional resources and energies has led to the use of hydraulic fracturing technology in petroleum engineering. Hydraulic fracturing stimulates a natural gas, oil, or geothermal well to maximize extraction.

It is one of the key methods of extracting unconventional oil and unconventional gas resources. In recent years, many researchers and scientists have made great achievements in this field. However, some urgent problems, such as geomechanical and huge environmental problems, still need to be solved. Therefore, it is necessary for us to find a suitable and innovative way to develop this technology. Numerical analysis and modeling of hydraulic fracturing is helpful in identifying tight oil/gas formations and providing accurate solutions for optimizing well spacing for the design of zipper-frac wells.

This Special Issue covers a comprehensive array of manuscripts and research papers that explore various aspects of hydraulic fracturing, including early design, modeling, field practices, and characterization.

Dr. Hamid Rahnema
Dr. Seyyed Mobeen Fatemi
Guest Editors

Dr. Sajjad Esmaeilpour
Guest Editor Assistant

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Processes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • reservoir geomechanics
  • fracture modeling
  • hydraulic fracturing design
  • flowback
  • fracture interference
  • fracturing fluid
  • fracture optimization
  • SRV
  • cluster spacing

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Dependency of Pressure Expression towards Formation Pressures during Drilling Operations in Hydrocarbon Wells and Suitable Choice of Pressure Control Method
by Gabriel Wittenberger, Tomas Huszar, Erika Skvarekova, Jozef Cambal and Michaela Bugnova
Processes 2023, 11(11), 3054; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr11113054 - 24 Oct 2023
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High pressures during drilling with the aim to obtain hydrocarbon formations (oil and natural gas) can cause an uncontrolled eruption. Therefore, it is necessary to look for warning signs of kicks and control the formation strength. The aim of this article is to [...] Read more.
High pressures during drilling with the aim to obtain hydrocarbon formations (oil and natural gas) can cause an uncontrolled eruption. Therefore, it is necessary to look for warning signs of kicks and control the formation strength. The aim of this article is to show a real process of fracture pressures during a gas kick and their possible solutions. The evaluation of the lithological structure of formations and the correct evaluation of seismic measurements are closely related to the issue of fracture pressures. The contribution also includes software data for detailed analysis and calculations of formations pressures. We point out the incorrect calculation of the geological lithology and employ a casing shoe; it is a risky decision to use a formation integrity test as opposed to a leak of the test. Based on theoretical knowledge, we compared and verified the recalculation of pressure coefficients during the gas kick. In our case, we propose possible solutions for cracking a casing shoe. We point out the importance of correct calculations for a safe and economical purpose. In this post, a theoretical example was shown where the system of casings was correctly designed, and based on this, we obtained ideal values of the fracture pressures. In the end, we proposed an algorithm to simplify work procedures during well control to minimize formation pressures against the deposit and casing shoe. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Simulations of Fracturing in Petroleum Engineering)
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