Hydraulic Fracturing
1. Feasible to capture the three-dimensional ‘stress shadowing or stress disturbance’ (the way, the stress magnitude and the stress distribution/field changes around the hydraulic fractures) effect of hydraulic fracturing – as a function of ‘space and time’ ‘(and as a function of applied hydraulic pressure magnitude (that includes the effect of stress-anisotropy, Poisson’s ratio & aspect ratio – resulting from the changes in both ‘rock-matrix stress’ and ‘pore pressure’)?
2. Particularly, the way, the enhancement in ‘minimum principal stress’ - gets accumulated - in the vicinity of subsequent fracturing – as the fracturing phase progresses?
3. Can we make a ‘dynamic’ comparison of the artificially induced hydraulic fractures resulting from altered stress fields (which, generally remain ‘shorter in length’, ‘narrower in width’ and compact in orientation) – from that of the far-field maximum horizontal stress orientation – in the presence of an artificially induced ‘second hydraulic fracture’ in the ‘stress shadow’ that remains ‘parallel/inclined/normal’ to an ‘existing open fracture’?
4. Feasible to capture the dynamic interaction between ‘parallel fractures’ and the ‘stress field’ (including stress super-position zone) that critically affects (either promoting or inhibiting) the propagation of ‘adjacent and surrounding’ fractures (and thereby forming a complex three-dimensional fracture network)?
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