A Study of Hydraulic Fracturing Initiation in Transversely Isotropic Rocks

Hydraulic fracturing of transverse isotropic reservoirs is of major interest for reservoir stimulation and in-situ stress estimation. Rock fabric anisotropy not only causes in-situ stress anisotropy, but also affects fracture initiation from the wellbore. In this study a semi-analytical method is us...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Serajian, Vahid
Other Authors: Ghassemi, Ahmad
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-08-10125