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DOI	10.1029/2020JB020107
	Laboratory Experiments Contrasting Growth of Uniformly and Nonuniformly Spaced Hydraulic Fractures
	Gunaydin D.; Peirce A.P.; Bunger A.P.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	21699313
卷号	126 期号:1
英文摘要	Hydraulic fractures that grow in close proximity to one an other interact and compete for fluid that is injected to the wellbore, leading to dominance of some fractures and suppression of others. This phenomenon is ubiquitously encountered in stimulation of horizontal wells in the petroleum industry and it also bears possible relevance to emplacement of multiple laterally propagating swarms of magma-driven dykes. Motivated by a need to validate mechanical models, this paper focuses on laboratory experiments and their comparison to simulation results for the behavior of multiple, simultaneously growing hydraulic fractures. The experiments entail the propagation of both uniformly and nonuniformly spaced hydraulic fractures by injection of glucose or glycerin-based solutions into transparent (polymethyl methacrylate) blocks. Observed fracture growth is then compared to predictions of a fully coupled, parallel-planar 3D hydraulic fracturing simulator. Results from experiments and simulations confirm the suppression of inner fractures when the spacing between the fractures is uniform. For certain non-uniform spacing, both experiments and simulations show mitigated suppression of the central fractures. Specifically, the middle fracture in a 5-fracture array grows nearly equally to the outer fractures from the beginning of injection. Furthermore, with some delay, the other two fractures that are suppressed with uniformly spaced configurations grow, and eventually achieve a velocity exceeding the other three fractures in the array. Hence, these experiments give the first laboratory evidence of a model-predicted behavior wherein certain nonuniform fracture spacings result in drastic increases in the growth of all fractures within the array. © 2020. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
英文关键词	Dyke propagation; fluid-driven fracture; hydraulic fracturing; laboratory analog experiments; multiple fracture growth; stress shadow
语种	英语
来源期刊	Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/187423
作者单位	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gunaydin D.,Peirce A.P.,Bunger A.P.. Laboratory Experiments Contrasting Growth of Uniformly and Nonuniformly Spaced Hydraulic Fractures[J],2021,126(1).
APA	Gunaydin D.,Peirce A.P.,&Bunger A.P..(2021).Laboratory Experiments Contrasting Growth of Uniformly and Nonuniformly Spaced Hydraulic Fractures.Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,126(1).
MLA	Gunaydin D.,et al."Laboratory Experiments Contrasting Growth of Uniformly and Nonuniformly Spaced Hydraulic Fractures".Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126.1(2021).