How can we use one fracture to locate another?

Hydraulic fracturing is an important tool that helps extract fluids from the subsurface. It is critical in applications ranging from enhanced oil recovery to geothermal energy pro-duction. As the goal of fracturing is to increase flow rates within the reservoir volume, and because the reservoir is t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Poliannikov, Oleg V., Malcolm, Alison E., Djikpesse, Hugues, Prange, Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75752