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  title info:
    title: Evaluation and effect of fracturing fluids on fracture conductivity in tight gas reservoirs using dynamic fracture conductivity test
  name:
    name part: Correa Castro, Juan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hill, Alfred D.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Zhu, Ding
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Unconventional gas has become an important resource to help meet our future energy demands. Although plentiful, it is difficult to produce this resource, when locked in a massive sedimentary formation. Among all unconventional gas resources, tight gas sands represent a big fraction and are often characterized by very low porosity and permeability associated with their producing formations, resulting in extremely low production rate. The low flow properties and the recovery factors of these sands make necessary continuous efforts to reduce costs and improve efficiency in all aspects of drilling, completion and production techniques. Many of the recent improvements have been in well completions and hydraulic fracturing. Thus, the main goal of a hydraulic fracture is to create a long, highly conductive fracture to facilitate the gas flow from the reservoir to the wellbore to obtain commercial production rates. Fracture conductivity depends on several factors, such as like the damage created by the gel during the treatment and the gel clean-up after the treatment. This research is focused on predicting more accurately the fracture conductivity, the gel damage created in fractures, and the fracture cleanup after a hydraulic fracture treatment under certain pressure and temperature conditions. Parameters that alter fracture conductivity, such as polymer concentration, breaker concentration and gas flow rate, are also examined in this study. A series of experiments, using a procedure of "dynamical fracture conductivity test," were carried out. This procedure simulates the proppant/frac fluid slurries flow into the fractures in a low-permeability rock, as it occurs in the field, using different combinations of polymer and breaker concentrations under reservoirs conditions. The result of this study provides the basis to optimize the fracturing fluids and the polymer loading at different reservoir conditions, which may result in a clean and conductive fracture. Success in imp…
  note: by Juan Carlos Correa Castro.
  note: "Major Subject: Petroleum Engineering"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-08-09 15:09:44).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2011 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9106
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Petroleum Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Dynamic fracture conductivity
  subject:
    topic: tight gas reservoirs
  subject:
    topic: hydraulic fracture
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9106
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 110817
    record change date: 20151202142301.0
    record identifier: in00002706175