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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Volume 475, Issue 2221, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2018.0658
Keywords
analytical poromechanical solutions; directionally drilled borehole; finite-length fluid discharge; finite-element simulations; hydraulic fracturing; integral transform technique
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- ACS Petroleum Research Fund
- American Chemical Society [56743-DNI9]
- Industrial Ties Research Subprogram, Board of Regents, Louisiana [LEQSF(2016-19)-RD-B-02]
- Economic Development Assistantships, Louisiana State University [000408]
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Hydraulic fracturing is the primary method of stimulation in unconventional reservoirs, playing a significant role in oil and gas production enhancement. A key issue for the analysis of hydraulic fracture initiation is to accurately determine the stress distributions in the vicinity of the borehole caused by the injection of pressurized fluids. This paper develops an exact, three-dimensional, poroelastic coupled analytical solution for such stress analysis of an arbitrarily inclined borehole subjected concurrently to a finite-length fluid discharge and in situ stresses, using Fourier expansion theorem and the Laplace-Fourier integral transform technique. The complicated boundary conditions, which involve the mixed boundary values at the borehole surface and the coupling between the total radial stress and injection-induced pore pressure over the sectioned borehole interval, as well as the fully three-dimensional far field in situ stresses, are addressed in a novel way and deliberately/elegantly decomposed into five fundamental, easier to handle modes. The rigour and definitive nature of the proposed analytical methodology facilitates fundamental understanding of the mechanism underlying the stress responses of the borehole and porous medium. It can be and is used here as a benchmark for the numerical solutions obtained from the finite-element analysis commercial program (ABAQUS).
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