An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems.

The flow of homogeneous fluids through porous media: analogies with other physical problems

Thirty Years of Gas Shale Fracturing: What Have We Learned?

Practical Solutions for Pressure-Transient Responses of Fractured Horizontal Wells in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs

Hydraulic fracturing has been inferred to trigger the majority of injection-induced earthquakes in western Canada, in contrast to the Midwestern United States, where massive saltwater disposal is the dominant triggering mechanism. A template-based earthquake catalog from a seismically active Canadian shale play, combined with comprehensive injection data during a 4-month interval, shows that earthquakes are tightly clustered in space and time near hydraulic fracturing sites. The largest event [moment magnitude (MW) 3.9] occurred several weeks after injection along a fault that appears to extend from the injection zone into crystalline basement. Patterns of seismicity indicate that stress changes during operations can activate fault slip to an offset distance of >1 km, whereas pressurization by hydraulic fracturing into a fault yields episodic seismicity that can persist for months.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/354/6318/1406.full.pdf

Fault activation by hydraulic fracturing in western Canada.

An Experimental Study of Cyclic CO2 Injection to Improve Shale Oil Recovery

Fracturing Design aimed at Enhancing Fracture Complexity

Methods, systems, and devices related to downhole wellbore operations such as drilling and completing wells in an earth formation include a laser device.

Wellbore laser operations

A method and system for development of a naturally fractured formation may include generating a fracture model from a fracture treatment of a well in the naturally fractured formation. The fracture model may account for natural fractures in the naturally fractured formation. The fracture model may include the fracture volume of the fracture generated by the fracture treatment. Well spacing and fracture stimulation design for one or more wells in the naturally fractured formation may be determined based on the fracture model.

Mohamed Y. Soliman

Papers

An Experimental Study of Cyclic CO2 Injection to Improve Shale Oil Recovery

Fracturing Design aimed at Enhancing Fracture Complexity

Wellbore laser operations

Method and system for development of naturally fractured formations

Geomechanics Aspects of Multiple Fracturing of Horizontal and Vertical Wells