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Thermoelastic fracturing and buoyancy-driven convection: Surprising sources of longevity for EGS circulation
Mark McClure
To maximize value from an EGS system, engineers need to optimize flow rate, well spacing, and well configuration. Numerical simulations yield interesting and surprising results reg…
Commentary on Four New DFIT Papers: (a) In-Situ Measurements from EGS Collab; (b) Comparison of Techniques at the Bedretto Project; (c) Statistical Review of 62 DFITs; and (d) An Article Advocating the Tangent Method
Mark W. McClure
This post provides commentary on recent four papers on diagnostic fracture injection testing (DFIT). The first paper uses in-situ deformation measurements to directly observe fract…
Transverse Hydraulic Fracture Initiation: Insights from Intermediate-Scale Hydraulic Fracture Tests
Jeffrey Burghardt, Hunter Knox, Chris Strickland +8
In a uniform stress field, a tensile hydraulic fracture will favor propagation in the plane formed by the maximum (most compressive) and intermediate principal stresses. For the pr…
Discussion of the Paper SPE-187038-MS: Fracture Closure Stress: Reexamining Field and Laboratory Experiments of Fracture Closure Using Modern Interpretation Methodologies
Mark W. McClure
In recent years, there has been discussion in the literature regarding methods of estimating the magnitude of the minimum principal stress from subsurface fracture injection tests,…
An accurate and efficient method for calculating fluid exchange between fractures and matrix with a non-conforming mesh
Mark McClure
I propose the 1D Subgrid Method for calculating fluid exchange between fractures and matrix with a non-conforming mesh. The method is demonstrated on linear and radial flow problem…