Abstract: Frac-driven interactions (FDIs) often lead to sharp decline in gas and oil production rates of wells in shale gas/oil reservoirs. How to minimize the FDI is an open problem in the oil and gas industry. Xiao et al.’s (2019, ...

Abstract: With the downturn in natural gas prices, it is vitally important to reduce the cost of drilling shale gas wells. Gaspercussion drilling has been recently employed in shale gas field development. It increases footage capacity ...

Abstract: Natural gas and oil exploration and production from shale formations have gained a great momentum in many regions in the past five years. Producing hydrocarbons from shale is challenging because of low productivity of ...

Abstract: Polymer-gel, as a rheological complex fluid, is vulnerable to slip at solid walls. If wall slip occurs, the accuracy of viscosity measurements that are based on the no-slip boundary condition assumption is affected. This ...

Abstract: Radial fractures are created in unconventional gas and oil reservoirs in modern well stimulation operations such as hydraulic refracturing (HRF), explosive fracturing (EF), and high energy gas fracturing (HEGF). This paper ...

Abstract: Radial fractures are created in unconventional gas and oil reservoirs in modern well stimulation operations such as hydraulic refracturing (HRF), explosive fracturing (EF), and high energy gas fracturing (HEGF). This paper ...

Abstract: Wellbore instability is a critical issue restricting efficient well drilling and successful development of oil and gas field. Most instability problems originate from shale formations because of their distinct laminated ...

Abstract: The hole cleaning issue in gas-lift drilling has been a concern and has not been previously investigated due to the difficulties of experimental studies and analytical modeling. The objective of this study is to deliver ...