Guest Editors' NoteAs a holistic way of working with children and young people to develop their learning and wellbeing, their inter-and independence, social pedagogy is widely practised across many European countries. While the ways in which it is practiced will differ — depending on the cultural context and setting — there are also common threads that connect the social pedagogic traditions found in several countries. Hämäläinen (2003) suggests that ‘social pedagogy has a certain perspective of its own [which] cannot be reduced to a set of simple pedagogical methods, but should be understood as an educational orientation in which the world, people, society, social problems and social work are observed through “social pedagogical” glasses, as it were’ (p. 76).
Over the last decade, tight oil production has become significant with the success of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, the recovery factor of tight oil production remains very low and no standard secondary recovery method exists after primary depletion. We propose a new secondary recovery method: to use existing hydraulic fractures (every other fracture) in a horizontal well as gas injection and oil production sites to conduct inter-fracturegas flooding within a single well. An ideal process of this method envisions a horizontal well centered in an enclosed reservoir, where the hydraulic fractures are evenly distributed along the well, parallel to each other. If the hydraulic fractures can be effectively isolated, and injection and production can be conducted through alternate fractures at the wellbore, then highly efficient flooding patterns can be created. Key questions include: Is there adequate injectivity and productivity in a sub-microdarcy reservoir?How far are the ideal reservoir conditions from reality?How difficult is it to isolate individual fractures within the wellbore? In addressing these key questions, first, the success of a flooding process relies on reasonable injectivity and response time between the injector and producer – in this case the injector being one hydraulic fracture and the producer being an adjacent hydraulic fracture; both economical rates and reasonable communication time between adjacent fractures are demonstrated through analytical calculations and reservoir simulations in a typical well setting; nearly 100% recovery is achieved in the reservoir units between the fractures in a miscible flooding process. Second, actual reservoir conditions are incorporated in our study, focusing on direct fracture communications; the effects are demonstrated, and comparisons among different methods are made. Finally, potential challenges in operations are summarized and current technologies are reviewed; the gaps between the current settings and the required settings are demonstrated. Economic discussions are made, indicating positive scenarios with large tolerances. With the rapid development of tight oil reservoirs, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technologies are urgently required to improve the recovery factor beyond primary depletion. An effective flooding process may be conducted if the hydraulic fractures can be used as injection and production ports. As a first attempt to envision an inter-fracture flooding process, key aspects are defined and examined, showing promising results. Inter-fracture gas flooding may become a standard secondary recovery technique for tight oil reservoirs and add significant reserves.
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