Numerical simulations of proppant transportation in cryogenic fluids: Implications on liquid helium and liquid nitrogen fracturing for subsurface hydrogen storage

Patel, Sanket; Wilson, Isaac; Sreenivasan, Hari; Krishna, Shanker

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.12.268

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“…During the fracturing process, proppants enter the fractures along with the fracturing fluid, providing support to prevent fracture closure, keeping the fractures open, and improving the reservoir's conductivity in the vicinity of the fractures. Typically, higher proppant concentrations have a noticeable effect on the fracture conductivity, leading to improved production results [31][32][33].…”

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An Integrated Optimization Method for CO Pre-Injection during Hydraulic Fracturing in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Dong,

Gao,

Zhang

et al. 2024

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CO 2 pre-injection during hydraulic fracturing is an important method for the development of medium to deep heavy oil reservoirs. It reduces the interfacial tension and viscosity of crude oil, enhances its flowability, maintains reservoir pressure, and increases reservoir drainage capacity. Taking the Badaowan Formation as an example, in this study a detailed three-dimensional geomechanical model based on static data from well logging interpretations is elaborated, which can take into account both vertical and horizontal geological variations and mechanical characteristics. A comprehensive analysis of the impact of key construction parameters on Pre-CO 2 based fracturing (such as cluster spacing and injection volume), is therefore conducted. Thereafter, using optimized construction parameters, a non-structured grid for dynamic development prediction is introduced, and the capacity variations of different production scenarios are assessed. On the basis of the simulation results, reasonable fracturing parameters are finally determined, including cluster spacing, fracturing fluid volume, proppant concentration, and well spacing. KEYWORDSHeavy oil reservoir; pre-storage CO 2 energy fracturing; horizontal well fracturing parameters; numerical simulation Nomenclature AC Acoustic compression DTSM Shear wave sonic log hFracture height h iThe height from the bottom layer to the top of the i-th layer K IlThe stress intensity factors at the lower tips of the fracture K IuThe stress intensity factors at the upper tips of the fracture MD Measured depth p cpThe fracture pressure measured at the reference depth poisson Poisson's ratio This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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An Integrated Optimization Method for CO Pre-Injection during Hydraulic Fracturing in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Dong,

Gao,

Zhang

et al. 2024

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“…Sun et al (2023) refined a proppant transport model based on the Euler method and analyzed the effect of fracture width on proppant transport in hydraulic fracturing. In addition, proppant transport in carbon dioxide (Liu et al, 2024), liquid nitrogen, and liquid helium fracturing (Patel et al, 2024) has also been studied based on the Euler method. Li et al (2023) studied the proppant transport process during pulse fracturing in coal seams using Fluent software and pointed out that the proppant can be transported at a longer distance through pulse fracturing.…”

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Numerical simulation study on the ultimate injection concentration and injection strategy of a proppant in hydraulic fracturing

Wu,

He,

Zeng

et al. 2024

Front. Energy Res.

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The injection volume and the distribution of a proppant inside a fracture have a direct impact on the stimulation effect of fracturing. In this study, a new proppant transport model was established based on the Euler method. In this model, the proppant plugging element allows fluid to pass through. Furthermore, the proppant plugging process was successfully simulated based on this model. The proppant transport and ultimate injection concentration under different injection modes were discussed. The numerical simulation results indicate that compared with the strategy of constant concentration, the strategy of a stepwise increasing concentration can make the proppant distribution in the fracture more uniform. The strategy of injection with a stepwise increasing concentration and a periodic injection with a stepwise increasing concentration can increase the injection volume of the proppant by 25%. In the fracture network, a 67% increase in the number of branch fractures resulted in a 17% increase in the maximum proppant injection volume. If the branch fracture width is reduced by 50%, the maximum proppant injection volume is reduced by 17%.

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Performance evaluation of fracturing fluids in the presence of NaCl, CaCl2 and KCl as hydrate inhibitors for extremely low temperature stimulation applications

Wilson,

Patel,

Sreenivasan

et al. 2024

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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Numerical simulations of proppant transportation in cryogenic fluids: Implications on liquid helium and liquid nitrogen fracturing for subsurface hydrogen storage

Cited by 6 publications

References 63 publications

An Integrated Optimization Method for CO Pre-Injection during Hydraulic Fracturing in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

An Integrated Optimization Method for CO Pre-Injection during Hydraulic Fracturing in Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Numerical simulation study on the ultimate injection concentration and injection strategy of a proppant in hydraulic fracturing

Performance evaluation of fracturing fluids in the presence of NaCl, CaCl2 and KCl as hydrate inhibitors for extremely low temperature stimulation applications

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