**Author details**

Alexander M. Linkov1,2\* and Gennady Mishuris3

\*Address all correspondence to: voknilal@hotmail.com

1 Department of Mathematics, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow, Poland

2 Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

3 Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK

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**Section 10**

**Mulitiple Hydraulic Fracture Growth**

**Mulitiple Hydraulic Fracture Growth**

**Chapter 32**

**The Geomechanical Interaction of**

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the fracture treatment itself.

**1. Introduction**

studying the height growth of multiple fractures.

**Abstract**

Sau-Wai Wong, Mikhail Geilikman and Guanshui Xu

**Multiple Hydraulic Fractures in Horizontal Wells**

The technology of multiple hydraulic fracture stimulation in horizontal wells has trans‐ formed the business of oil and gas exploitation from extremely tight, unconventional hydro‐ carbon bearing rock formations. The fracture stimulation process typically involves placing multiple fractures stage-by-stage along the horizontal well using diverse well completion technologies. The effective design of such massive fracture stimulation requires an under‐ standing of how multiple hydraulic fractures would grow and interact with each other in heterogeneous formations. This is especially challenging as the interaction of these fractures are subject to the dynamic process of subsurface geomechanical stress changes induced by

This paper consists of two parts. Firstly, an idealised analytical model is used to highlight some key features of multiple hydraulic fractures interaction, and to provide a quantifica‐ tion of 'stress shadow'. Secondly, a new non-planar three dimensional (3D) hydraulic frac‐ turing numerical model is used to provide an insight into the growth of multiple fractures under the influence of subsurface geomechanical stress shadows. Attention is given to

Hydraulic fracturing or fracture stimulation establishes conductive fractures hydraulically from a horizontal well in the tight formation/reservoir. They provide large surface area contact with the formation and thus facilitate the production of oil and gas, as evident from the experience in North Americas [1]. Multiple fractures are now placed in sequential stages in

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