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  title info:
    title: Methodologies and new user interfaces to optimize hydraulic fracturing design and evaluate fracturing performance for gas wells
  name:
    name part: Wang, Wenxin
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Valko, Peter P.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: This thesis presents and develops efficient and effective methodologies for optimal hydraulic fracture design and fracture performance evaluation. These methods incorporate algorithms that simultaneously optimize all of the treatment parameters while accounting for required constraints. Damage effects, such as closure stress, gel damage and non-Darcy flow, are also considered in the optimal design and evaluation algorithms.Two user-friendly program modules, which are active server page (ASP) based, were developed to implement the utility of the methodologies. Case analysis was executed to demonstrate the workflow of the two modules. Finally, to validate the results from the two modules, results were compared to those from a 3D simulation program.The main contributions of this work are: An optimal fracture design methodology called unified fracture design (UFD)is presented and damage effects are considered in the optimal design calculation. As a by-product of UFD, a fracture evaluation methodology is proposed to conduct well stimulation performance evaluation. The approach is based on calculating and comparing the actual dimensionless productivity index of fractured wells with the benchmark which has been developed for optimized production. To implement the fracture design and evaluation methods, two web ASP based user interfaces were developed; one is called Frac Design (Screening), and the other is Frac Evaluation. Both modules are built to hold the following features. Friendly web ASP based user interface Minimum user inputo Proppant type and mesh size selection- Damage effects consideration options- Convenient on-line help.
  note: by Wenxin Wang.
  note: "Major Subject: Petroleum Engineering"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (record created on Apr. 14, 2006.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M. S. Texas A&M University 2005
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text ( Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major Petroleum Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Hydraulic Fracturing
  subject:
    topic: Optimal Design
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3268
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 060922
    record change date: 20151104073848.0
    record identifier: in00002189880