Contents



Chapter 7 **Development of Fracture Networks Through Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 139** Xi Zhang and Rob Jeffrey


Contents **VII**

Chapter 8 **Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Across a Weak Discontinuity**

Chapter 9 **Effect of Flow Rate and Viscosity on Complex Fracture**

Chapter 10 **Hydrochemical and Hydrogeological Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Karoo, South Africa 213**

Chapter 11 **Regulatory Nirvana for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation 239**

Chapter 12 **How Can Understanding Community Concerns About**

Dimitry Chuprakov, Olga Melchaeva and Romain Prioul

Olga Kresse, Xiaowei Weng, Dimitry Chuprakov, Romain Prioul and

Barry Goldstein, Michael Malavazos, Alexandra Wickham, Michael

Jarosz, Dominic Pepicelli, Mieka Webb and Dale Wenham

**Hydraulic Fracturing Help to Address Them? 257**

Chapter 13 **Numerical Study of Interaction Between Hydraulic Fracture and**

Chapter 14 **Hydraulic Fracturing in Formations with Permeable Natural**

Chapter 15 **Injection Modeling and Shear Failure Predictions in Tight Gas**

Chapter 16 **The Role of Natural Fractures in Shale Gas Production 327**

**Sands — A Coupled Geomechanical Simulation Approach 311**

**Controlled by Fluid Injection 157**

**Development in UFM Model 183**

**Section 3 Regulations, Risks, and Communities 211**

G. Steyl and G. J. van Tonder

S.T. Cham and P. Stone

**Fractures 287**

**Section 4 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 2 269**

**Discrete Fracture Network 271** Azadeh Riahi and Branko Damjanac

Olga Kresse and Xiaowei Weng

Arshad Islam and Antonin Settari

Ian Walton and John McLennan

Charles Cohen



Contents **IX**

Chapter 25 **Quantitative Evaluation of Completion Techniques on Influencing Shale Fracture 'Complexity' 513** N. Nagel, F. Zhang, M. Sanchez-Nagel and B. Lee

Chapter 26 **Modeling of Proppant Permeability and Inertial Factor for Fluid Flow Through Packed Columns 549** Bruce R. Meyer, Lucas W. Bazan and Doug Walls

Chapter 27 **A New Approach to Hydraulic Stimulation of Geothermal**

Chapter 28 **Fracture Network Connectivity — A Key To Hydraulic**

Chapter 29 **Fluid-Driven Fracture in a Poroelastic Rock 607**

**Injection of a Low Viscosity Fluid 629** Erfan Sarvaramini and Dmitry I. Garagash

**Section 10 Mulitiple Hydraulic Fracture Growth 659**

**in Horizontal Wells 661**

**Hydraulic Fracturing 679**

F. Zhang, N. Nagel, B. Lee and M. Sanchez-Nagel

Yevhen Kovalyshen and Emmanuel Detournay

Chapter 31 **Modified Formulation, ε-Regularization and the Efficient Solution of Hydraulic Fracture Problems 641** Alexander M. Linkov and Gennady Mishuris

Chapter 32 **The Geomechanical Interaction of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures**

Sau-Wai Wong, Mikhail Geilikman and Guanshui Xu

Chapter 33 **Numerical Simulation of Sequential and Simultaneous**

Varahanaresh Sesetty and Ahmad Ghassemi

Chapter 30 **Pressurization of a PKN Fracture in a Permeable Rock During**

**Reservoirs by Roughness Induced Fracture Opening 571** Nima Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Sheik S. Rahman and Andrei

**Fracturing Effectiveness and Microseismicity Generation 591**

**Section 8 Flow Paths and Flow Networks 547**

Kotousov

**Section 9 Multiscale Modeling 605**

## Chapter 34 **Three Dimensional Forms of Closely-Spaced Hydraulic Fractures 693**

James Kear, Justine White, Andrew P. Bunger, Rob Jeffrey and Mir-Akbar Hessami

#### **Section 11 Numerical Modeling 1 709**


#### **Section 12 Injection and Efficiency 771**


Brice Lecampion, Anthony Peirce, Emmanuel Detournay, Xi Zhang, Zuorong Chen, Andrew Bunger, Christine Detournay, John Napier, Safdar Abbas, Dmitry Garagash and Peter Cundall


Chapter 46 **Estimation of the Impact of Mining on Stresses by Actual Measurements in Pre and Post Mining Stages by Hydrofracture Method–A Case Study in a Copper Mine 915** Smarajit Sengupta, Dhubburi S. Subrahmanyam, Rabindra Kumar Sinha and Govinda Shyam


Contents **XI**

Chapter 42 **Testing and Review of Various Displacement Discontinuity Elements for LEFM Crack Problems 831**

Safdar Abbas, Dmitry Garagash and Peter Cundall

Chapter 44 **Hydraulic Fracturing Mine Back Trials — Design Rationale and**

**During Preconditioning of a Roof Rock over a Coal**

Chapter 45 **Monitoring and Measuring Hydraulic Fracturing Growth**

R. G. Jeffrey, Z. Chen, K. W. Mills and S. Pegg

Chapter 46 **Estimation of the Impact of Mining on Stresses by Actual**

**Method–A Case Study in a Copper Mine 915**

Chapter 47 **An Efficient and Accurate Approach for Studying the Heat**

Chapter 48 **Thermal Effects on Shear Fracturing and Injectivity During**

Bisheng Wu, Xi Zhang, Andrew Bunger and Rob Jeffrey

**Convergence Rate of Hydraulic Fracture Simulators Compared**

Brice Lecampion, Anthony Peirce, Emmanuel Detournay, Xi Zhang, Zuorong Chen, Andrew Bunger, Christine Detournay, John Napier,

Peter K. Kaiser, Benoît Valley, Maurice B. Dusseault and Damien

**Measurements in Pre and Post Mining Stages by Hydrofracture**

Smarajit Sengupta, Dhubburi S. Subrahmanyam, Rabindra Kumar

**Extraction from Multiple Recharge and Discharge Wells 929**

Somayeh Goodarzi, Antonin Settari, Mark Zoback and David W.

Chapter 43 **The Impact of the Near-Tip Logic on the Accuracy and**

Hyunil Jo and Robert Hurt

**to Reference Solutions 855**

**Section 14 Mining and Measurement 875**

**Project Status 877**

**Longwall Panel 893**

Sinha and Govinda Shyam

**CO2 Storage 945**

Keith

**Section 15 Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Systems 927**

Duff
