"Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing" ed. by Andrew P. Bunger, John McLennan and Rob Jeffrey

The goal of this book is to advance hydraulic fracturing technology that is effective in its purpose and sustainable in its impacts on communities and environments by bringing together hydraulic fracturing experts not only from the oil and gas industry, but also from other application areas of hydraulic fracturing such as mining and geothermal energy production.

This book comprises the proceedings for the International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing (HF2013) which was held 20-22 May 2013 in Brisbane, Australia.
Topics include hydraulic fracturing of naturally fractured formations, well completions and fracture initiation, induced seismicity, experimental investigations, and coupled modelling.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Keynote Lectures
1 Fracturing Fluids
2 Fracturing Fluid Components
3 Fractures and Fracturing:Hydraulic Fracturing in Jointed Rock
4 Five Things You Didn't Want to Know about Hydraulic Fractures
5 EGS — Goodbye or Back to the Future
6 Understanding Hydraulic Fracture Growth, Effectiveness, and Safety Through Microseismic Monitoring
Section 2 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 1
7 Development of Fracture Networks Through Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
8 Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Across a Weak Discontinuity Controlled by Fluid Injection
9 Effect of Flow Rate and Viscosity on Complex Fracture Development in UFM Model
Section 3 Regulations, Risks, and Communities
10 Hydrochemical and Hydrogeological Impact of Hydraulic Fracturing in the Karoo, South Africa
11 Regulatory Nirvana for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation
12 How Can Understanding Community Concerns About Hydraulic Fracturing Help to Address Them?
Section 4 Naturally Fractured Reservoirs 2
13 Numerical Study of Interaction Between Hydraulic Fracture and Discrete Fracture Network
14 ydraulic Fracturing in Formations with Permeable Natural Fractures
15 Injection Modeling and Shear Failure Predictions in Tight Gas Sands —A Coupled Geomechanical Simulation Approach
16 The Role of Natural Fractures in Shale Gas Production
Section 5 Well Completions and Fracture Initiation 1
17 Do Perforated Completions Have Value for Engineered Geothermal Systems
18 Differentiating Applications of Hydraulic Fracturing
19 Initiation and Breakdown of an Axisymmetric Hydraulic Fracture Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore
20 Hydraulic and Sleeve Fracturing Laboratory Experiments on 6 Rock Types
Section 6 Induced Seismicity and Slip
21 Microseismic Monitoring Developments in Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation
22 Blue Shift in the Spectrum of Arrival Times of Acoustic Signals Emitted during Laboratory Hydraulic Fracturing
23 A Numerical Investigation of Fault Slip Triggered by Hydraulic Fracturing
Section 7 Well Completions and Fracture Initiation 2
24 Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing in Heterogeneous Rock: The Effect of Perforation Angles and Bedding Plane on Hydraulic Fractures Evolutions
25 Quantitative Evaluation of Completion Techniques on Influencing Shale Fracture 'Complexity'
Section 8 Flow Paths and Flow Networks
26 Modeling of Proppant Permeability and Inertial Factor for Fluid Flow Through Packed Columns
27 A New Approach to Hydraulic Stimulation of Geothermal Reservoirs by Roughness Induced Fracture Opening
28 Fracture Network Connectivity —A Key To Hydraulic Fracturing Effectiveness and Microseismicity Generation
Section 9 Multiscale Modeling
29 Fluid-Driven Fracture in a Poroelastic Rock
30 Pressurization of a PKN Fracture in a Permeable Rock During Injection of a Low Viscosity Fluid
31 Modified Formulation, s-Regularization and the Efficient Solution of Hydraulic Fracture Problems
Section 10 Mulitiple Hydraulic Fracture Growth
32 The Geomechanical Interaction of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures in Horizontal Wells
33 Numerical Simulation of Sequential and Simultaneous Hydraulic Fracturing
34 Three Dimensional Forms of Closely-Spaced Hydraulic Fractures
Section 11 Numerical Modeling 1
35 The XFEM with an Explicit-Implicit Crack Description for Hydraulic Fracture Problems
36 An ABAQUS Implementation of the XFEM for Hydraulic Fracture Problems
37 Stress Intensity Factor Determination for Three-Dimensional Crack Using the Displacement Discontinuity Method with Applications to Hydraulic Fracture Height Growth and Non-Planar Propagation Paths
Section 12 Injection and Efficiency
38 Secondary Fractures and Their Potential Impacts on Hydraulic Fractures Efficiency
39 Importance of Fracture Closure to Cuttings Injection Efficiency
40 The Fate of Injected Water in Shale Formations
Section 13 Numerical Modeling 2
41 Three-Dimensional Numerical Model of Hydraulic Fracturing in Fractured Rock Masses
42 Testing and Review of Various Displacement Discontinuity Elements for LEFM Crack Problems
43 The Impact of the Near-Tip Logic on the Accuracy and Convergence Rate of Hydraulic Fracture Simulators Compared to Reference Solutions
Section 14 Mining and Measurement
44 Hydraulic Fracturing Mine Back Trials — Design Rationale and Project Status
45 Monitoring and Measuring Hydraulic Fracturing Growth During Preconditioning of a Roof Rock over a Coal Longwall Panel
46 Estimation of the Impact of Mining on Stresses by Actual Measurements in Pre and Post Mining Stages by Hydrofracture Method-ACase Study in a Copper Mine
Section 15 Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Systems
47 An Efficient and Accurate Approach for Studying the Heat Extraction from Multiple Recharge and Discharge Wells
48 Thermal Effects on Shear Fracturing and Injectivity During C02 Storage
49 Scale Model Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing for EGS Reservoir Creation Using a Heated True-Triaxial Apparatus
Section 16 Experimental Geomechanics
50 Comparison of Hydraulic and Conventional Tensile Strength Tests
51 Formation Fracturing by Pore Pressure Drop (Laboratory Study)
Section 17 Optimizing Stimulation of Fractured Reservoirs
52 Optimizing Hydraulic Fracturing Treatment Integrating Geomechanical Analysis and Reservoir Simulation for a Fractured Tight Gas Reservoir, Tarim Basin, China
53 Investigation of Hydraulic and Natural Fracture Interaction: Numerical Modeling or Artificial Intelligence?