Hydraulic Fracturing: Progress and Challenges
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 16503
Special Issue Editors
Interests: petroleum geomechanics; wellbore stability; hydraulic fracturing; sanding and sand prevention; fractured reservoir characterization; geomechanics of unconventional reservoirs; hard rock drilling
Interests: geophysics; artificial intelligence; hydraulic fracturing; reservoir monitoring; CO2 sequestration
Interests: enhanced oil recovery; reservoir engineering; chemical engineering; petroleum engineering; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Journal of Energies mission is to publish peer-reviewed, original research seeking sustainable methods of worldwide energy production through engineering, scientific, and technological advances. Hydraulic fracturing’s transformative impact on the exploitation of shale rocks has been one of the most significant developments in the energy-related topic in the oil & gas industry. Aside from the evolution of hydraulic fracturing technology, its economic impact and environmental considerations will be the focus of this special issue. Of particular interest to the scientific community is to improve our understanding of the production patterns observed from long multi-stage lateral completions despite the ultra-low permeability of these reservoirs. Furthermore, our knowledge of these unconventional reservoirs’ physical and mechanical behavior under varying stress conditions is highly limited at best. While “fracture complexity” has been routinely used to explain the vast discrepancies between actual observations during fracture treatments and the predictive models, more research is needed to better understand these differences and optimize future completions. In terms of diagnostic tools, incorrect use of techniques such as microseismic mapping by oversimplifying or ignoring limitations has led to erroneous predictions. Thus, there is a need to continue working on such techniques to improve their applicability, provide additional tools for data analysis, and quantify issues such as uncertainty. Apart from these focused research topics, the broader scientific community would benefit from past experiences (case histories), environmental studies, and the economic impacts of hydraulic fracturing. We will be aiming to build upon the remarkable success that hydraulic fracturing has had in the past two decades to improve our understanding of this process by plugging various technology gaps that are observed today. With the advances that artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics (DA) have made in different aspects of oil and gas exploration and production, we will also seek to investigate how AI-DA could be employed to further advance the effectiveness of hydraulic fracturing. Papers are invited on 1) Hydraulic fracturing related topics in general, 2) Recfracturing, 3) Infill well fracturing, 4) Production patterns, 5) Geomechanics and Stress computations, 6) Proppant placement, 7) Microseismic mapping and seismic hazards, 8) Novel Diagnostics Methodologies, 9) Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, and 10) Economics, Safety, and Environmental.
Prof. Dr. Vamegh Rasouli
Dr. Fred Aminzadeh
Dr. Uchenna Odi
Dr. Ali Rezaei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Recfracturing
- Infill well fracturing
- Production patterns
- Geomechanics and Stress computations
- Proppant placement
- Microseismic mapping and seismic hazards
- Novel Diagnostics Methodologies
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
- Stimulated Reservoir Volume (SRV)
- Economics, Safety, and Environmental
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