Advances in Integrated Technology of Fracturing and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Tight Reservoirs
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2024) | Viewed by 11527
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Interests: inter-well fracturing interference; integration of hydraulic fracturing and enhanced oil recovery
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Interests: damage and fracture of geomaterials; flow and transport in fractured reservoirs; stability analysis of subsurface engineering
Interests: high-temperature rock mechanics; geological hazard prevention and environmental protection; surface process and environmental effect
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Dear Colleagues:
A large volume of fracturing fluids is injected into fracturing formations to create complex fracture networks. This procedure can increase the conductive pathway for the flow of oil and gas in tight reservoirs. During the fracturing, the liquid injected into the reservoirs at a speed exceeding the water uptake capacity of the formation not only helps create fractures, but also causes the deformation of the rock mass, water–rock reactions, and the redistribution of oil and water in matrix pores. Therefore, there are many underlying physical processes, as well as the technical issues, behind the hydraulic fracturing processes. The injection scale of thousands of sands and ten thousand of liquid renders the in situ stress field in a state of dynamic change, which directly affects the initiation and propagation of fractures. When tight reservoirs are developed using a well factory, excessive propagation of fractures will cause engineering risks, such as inter-well fracturing interference, casing deformation resulted from stress evolution, and reductions in the oil and gas recovery. Enhanced oil recovery involves the multiphase and multi-scale flow of oil and gas in matrix pores and fractures. Integrated technology of fracturing and enhanced oil recovery is an effective means of solving the above problems.
In light of the above issues, this Special Issue aims to define the evolution law of stress fields during large-scale fracturing, control the scale of fracture propagation, reduce the negative impact of inter-well fracturing interference on productivity, prevent casing deformation resulted from in-situ stress changes in advance, and improve the utilization efficiency of fracturing fluid. The above related studies should provide theoretical guidance for the development of tight reservoirs.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- New theories and methods of Integrated Technology of Fracturing and EOR
- Stress field evolution during fracturing in the real-field scales
- Numerical and experimental analyses of fracture propagation and control
- Inter-well fracturing interference mechanisms
- Casing deformation resulting from stress evolution
- Utilization efficiency of fracturing fluids
- The properties of fracturing fracture
- Flow and coupled geomechanical–hydraulic processes
- New techniques of enhanced oil recovery
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Yanjun Zhang
Dr. Luyu Wang
Dr. Qiang Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- stress field evolution fracture control
- inter-well fracturing interference
- casing deformation
- utilization of fracturing fluids
- fracturing
- EOR
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