Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trend
Stimulation principles, construction techniques, equipment requirements and technical features of liquid carbon dioxide fracturing were summarized, and the existing problems and development trend of this technology were discussed. Compared with the conventional hydraulic fracturing technology, it ha...
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| author | He LIU Feng WANG Jin ZHANG Siwei MENG Yongwei DUAN |
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| description | Stimulation principles, construction techniques, equipment requirements and technical features of liquid carbon dioxide fracturing were summarized, and the existing problems and development trend of this technology were discussed. Compared with the conventional hydraulic fracturing technology, it has several advantages including high flowback, small damage in reservoir, outstanding stimulation effect and so on. There are five main problems existing in this technology: friction of liquid carbon dioxide is very high; liquid carbon dioxide has an extremely low viscosity, poor proppant carrying ability and a large amount of fluid loss, thus behaves poorly in fracturing; the phase behavior of carbon dioxide is very complex in the process of fracturing, it is hard to realize accurate prediction and control for phase transition of carbon dioxide; fracturing equipments, especially blenders have obvious defects and should be improved further; computational methods for operation parameters in liquid carbon dioxide fracturing is still lacking. Supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing technology succeeds almost all the advantages of traditional liquid carbon dioxide fracturing technology, and has a better stimulation effect, smaller pump pressure and fewer requirements for blenders, thus is the trend in carbon dioxide fracturing. Key words: unconventional resources, fracturing with carbon dioxide, fracturing with supercritical carbon dioxide, reservoir stimulation, phase change |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0dd580b3c8094592a3fe5a993790eb492022-12-21T22:23:33ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Petroleum Exploration and Development1876-38042014-08-01414513519Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trendHe LIU0Feng WANG1Jin ZHANG2Siwei MENG3Yongwei DUAN4PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, Beijing 100083, China; Corresponding authorPetroChina Jilin Oilfield Company, Songyuan 138000, ChinaChina University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, ChinaChina University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, ChinaPetroChina Jilin Oilfield Company, Songyuan 138000, ChinaStimulation principles, construction techniques, equipment requirements and technical features of liquid carbon dioxide fracturing were summarized, and the existing problems and development trend of this technology were discussed. Compared with the conventional hydraulic fracturing technology, it has several advantages including high flowback, small damage in reservoir, outstanding stimulation effect and so on. There are five main problems existing in this technology: friction of liquid carbon dioxide is very high; liquid carbon dioxide has an extremely low viscosity, poor proppant carrying ability and a large amount of fluid loss, thus behaves poorly in fracturing; the phase behavior of carbon dioxide is very complex in the process of fracturing, it is hard to realize accurate prediction and control for phase transition of carbon dioxide; fracturing equipments, especially blenders have obvious defects and should be improved further; computational methods for operation parameters in liquid carbon dioxide fracturing is still lacking. Supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing technology succeeds almost all the advantages of traditional liquid carbon dioxide fracturing technology, and has a better stimulation effect, smaller pump pressure and fewer requirements for blenders, thus is the trend in carbon dioxide fracturing. Key words: unconventional resources, fracturing with carbon dioxide, fracturing with supercritical carbon dioxide, reservoir stimulation, phase changehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876380414600604 |
| spellingShingle | He LIU Feng WANG Jin ZHANG Siwei MENG Yongwei DUAN Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trend Petroleum Exploration and Development |
| title | Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trend |
| title_full | Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trend |
| title_fullStr | Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trend |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trend |
| title_short | Fracturing with carbon dioxide: Application status and development trend |
| title_sort | fracturing with carbon dioxide application status and development trend |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876380414600604 |
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