2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2019.106693
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Modeling of pressure dissolution, proppant embedment, and the impact on long-term conductivity of propped fractures

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“…These changes allow proppant to embed deeper into the fracture surface and reduce the conductivity of the fracture. Reducing fracture conductivity could impede or even prevent flow in the fractures, leading to significant reductions in overall production, e.g., thus, enhanced dissolution of calcite cement in response to high ionic strength hydraulic fracturing fluid may preclude using hydraulic fracturing fluids formulated from formation water . The dissolution of calcite could be minimized by ensuring that hydraulic fracturing fluid contains sufficient calcium to remain saturated with respect to calcite at reservoir temperature.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
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“…These changes allow proppant to embed deeper into the fracture surface and reduce the conductivity of the fracture. Reducing fracture conductivity could impede or even prevent flow in the fractures, leading to significant reductions in overall production, e.g., thus, enhanced dissolution of calcite cement in response to high ionic strength hydraulic fracturing fluid may preclude using hydraulic fracturing fluids formulated from formation water . The dissolution of calcite could be minimized by ensuring that hydraulic fracturing fluid contains sufficient calcium to remain saturated with respect to calcite at reservoir temperature.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…Reducing fracture conductivity could impede or even prevent flow in the fractures, leading to significant reductions in overall production, e.g., thus, enhanced dissolution of calcite cement in response to high ionic strength hydraulic fracturing fluid may preclude using hydraulic fracturing fluids formulated from formation water. 69 The dissolution of calcite could be minimized by ensuring that hydraulic fracturing fluid contains sufficient calcium to remain saturated with respect to calcite at reservoir temperature. In contrast, the dissolution of calcite cement in the rock adjacent to the fracture may increase porosity and permeability in the rock; however, we do not have sufficient data to assess the extent to which calcite dissolution penetrated into the rock.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Luo et al 23 proposed a new long-term proppant fracture conductivity model by considering the stress sensitivity of artificial fractures. The model results show that high effective stress in the reservoir leads to proppant fracture, fine formation migration, as well as fracturing fluid damage, and finally, the conductivity of supporting fractures will gradually decrease.…”
Section: Results and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, several mechanisms may result in the loss of fracture conductivity, such as fines migration, proppant diagenesis, proppant crushing, and proppant embedment, which is defined as proppant particles being embedded into the rock mass under pressure, causing a reduction in the fracture width and conductivity . Among these mechanisms, proppant embedment has been investigated via experiments, numerical simulation, and analytical modeling. However, as has been confirmed by a larger number of laboratory experiments conducted with proppants to reproduce the in situ fracturing process, laboratory observations greatly overestimate the conductivity of real wells. , This great discrepancy may arise because in these studies, the underground rocks are often regarded as elastic/elastoplastic. , However, increasing reservoir depth, high temperature, high pressure, and high stress may result in extreme geological conditions, which may transform the mechanical properties of reservoir rocks from elastic to viscoelastic or viscoplastic . Hard rocks can also exhibit time-dependent deformation , under such extreme conditions.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%