The Practice and Cognition of Hydraulic Fracturing Technique for Shale Gas Reservoir in Southeast Chongqing

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Shale gas is an important unconventional energy resource. However its only achieved successful commercial exploitation in the United States and Canada. Shale gas well QY1 was carried out in southeast Chongqing.Taking this well as a case, the fracturing design optimization workflow and its practice are described in this paper. The fracturing feasibility of well QY1 was firstly determined by referencing all the physical parameters of target formation. Then the reservoir stress model was revised and reservoir stress profile was established as well. The reservoir simulation software (Eclipse) was applied to build reservoir geological model for predicting the gas production and determine the optimized permeability enhanced area (PEA). The unconventional fracturing model (UFM) was used to optimize the fluid volume and fracturing scale. And the final fracturing plan was made based on the optimized conclusions. This optimization workflow and the good result provide reliable technique support for the development of the shale gas reservoir in this area. Key Words: Shale gas, PEA, Fracture propagation model, UFM, Production predicting model, Optimization

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 706-708)

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416-419

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June 2013

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