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A study of the effect of brittleness on hydraulic fracture complexity using a flow-coupled discrete element method

Shimizu et al., 2018

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730683283806025731
Author
Shimizu H
Ito T
Tamagawa T
Tezuka K
Publication year
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Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

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In recent years, hydraulic fracturing has emerged as an important technique for the development of unconventional tight gas and oil reservoirs, particularly shale reservoirs. Production from a tight reservoir requires hydraulic creation of a highly fractured network for …
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