Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing: Experiment, Model, and Monitoring (Hardcover)

i Preface

ii Acknowledgements

iii Dedication to Dr. Rob Jeffrey’s 70 anniversary for his pioneer contribution to the study of hydraulic fracture growth in naturally fractured rocks

Dr. Rob Jeffrey, Now Principal Geotechnical Engineer at SCT Operations, and formerly Program Leader of Petroleum Engineering at CSIRO, Australia

Chapter 1 Hydraulic fracturing in rocks: Recent progress for petroleum, mining, geothermal and geo-engineering applications
Dr. Rob Jeffrey and Prof. Emmanuel Detournay or contributor tbd

Part I: Experimental and monitoring observations

Chapter 2 The effects of stress contrasts on fracture height growth and volcanic eruption
Prof. Andrew Bunger, University of Pittsburgh, US; Agreed

Chapter 3 Anisotropy of rock properties and fracture growth in shales
Prof. Brice Lecampion, EPFL, Swiss; Agreed

Chapter 4 Monitoring of fracture growth by tiltmeter measurements
Dr. Zuorong Chen, CSIRO Energy and Dr. Rob Jeffrey, SCT; Agreed

Chapter 5 Fracture initiation by cyclic pumping
Prof. Guangqing Zhang, China University of Petroleum at Beijing, China; Agreed

Chapter 6 High-angle wells and hydraulic fractures
Drs. Diansen Yang and Zaile Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Agreed

Chapter 7 Injection-induced micro-seismicity: field-scale monitoring
Contributor TBD 

Part II: Theoretical and numerical results

Chapter 8 Tip asymptotes and applications in numerical algorithm
Prof. Emmanuel Detournay, University of Minnesota, USA; Agreed

Chapter 9 Non-singular tip and hydraulic fracture propagation
Prof. Dmitry Garagash, Dalhousie University, Canada;

Chapter 10 Modeling hydraulic fracture networks usin discrete element methods
Prof. Fengshou Zhang, Tongji University, China; Agreed

Chapter 11 Boundary element analysis of closely spaced fracture growth
Dr. Xiyu Chen, Profs Jinzhou Zhao and Yongming Li, Southwest University of Petroleum, China and Dr. Xi Zhang, CSIRO Energy, Australia; Agreed

Chapter 12 Geothermal energy output from multiple wells: thermal effects on fracture growth
Prof. Bisheng Wu, Tsinghua University, China, Agreed

Part III: Applications and engineering approaches

Chapter 13 Proppant transport in hydraulic fracture and tip screen-out
Dr. Egor Dontsov, W.D. Von Gonten Laboratories, LLC, US and Prof. Anthony Peirce, The University of British Columbia, Canada; Agreed

Chapter 14 Use of hydraulic fractures to mitigate seismicity during mining
Drs. Jianping Yang and Weizhong Chen, Chinese Academy of sciences, Dr. Xi Zhang, CSIRO Energy, Australia and Dr. Rob Jeffrey, SCT; Agreed

Chapter 15 Wellbore strengthening analysis based on hydraulic fracture mechanics
Drs. Liu Yang, Tianshou Ma, and Prof. Ping Chen Southwest University of Petroleum, China, and Bailin Wu, CSIRO Energy, Australia, Agreed

Chapter 16 Fracture characterization based on fluid flowback analysis
Prof. George Stewart at Heriot-Watt University, UK. Contributor TBD

Chapter 17 Fluid-driven fracture growth and magma intrusion
Prof. A Gudmundsson, Royal Holloway University of London, UK. Contributor TBD

Chapter 18 Hydraulic fracturing for long-term permeability enhancement: groundwater remediation and CO2 sequestration
Contributor TBD