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1 online resource (279 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Authors; 1. Fracturing Chronology: Milestones of the Hydraulic Fracturing Process; 1.1 Motivation and Objective; 1.2 Book Outline; 1.3 Book Chronology: Milestones of the Hydraulic Fracturing Process; 1.3.1 Introduction; 1.3.2 1947 to 1953: How the Hydraulic Fracturing Stimulation Process (Hydrafrac) Began; 1.3.2.1 Era of the Invention of Hydraulic Fracturing; 1.3.2.2 Another Important Commercialization of 1948; 1.3.3 Mid-1950s to Early 1960s: The Beginning of Fracturing Applications |
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1.3.3.1 Commercialization of Hydrafrac Broadens to Other Service Companies Allowed to License1.3.3.2 1955 Proved to Be the Peak Year during the Twentieth Century; 1.3.3.3 A Common Belief Was That Hydraulic Fractures Were Primarily Horizontal Pancakes; 1.3.4 Late 1960s: Expansion of Basic Knowledge of Downhole Fracturing Events; 1.3.4.1 Study of Fractures Using "Expanding Open-Hole Impression Packers"; 1.3.4.2 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Was Formed; 1.3.4.3 Hydrafrac Update through 1963; 1.3.5 Late 1960s to Mid-1970s |
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1.3.5.1 Project GasBuggy (1967-1973 Underground Nuclear Experiments)1.3.5.2 When Perforated Wells Won't Break Down to Allow Fracturing; 1.3.5.3 Bringing Rock Mechanics to Fracturing Technology; 1.3.5.4 Introduction of Handheld Calculators to Oilfield Applications; 1.3.5.5 Birth of Computerized Fracture Simulation Modeling; 1.3.5.6 Arab Oil Embargo from 1973 to 1974; 1.3.6 Birth of Coalbed Methane Fracturing and Massive Hydraulic Fracturing; 1.3.6.1 Coalbed Methane Fracturing; 1.3.6.2 Birth of Massive Hydraulic Fracturing |
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1.3.7 Late 1970s to Early 1980s: Proliferation of Knowledge and Application of Fracturing1.3.7.1 Introduction of "Frac Vans" to the Oilfield; 1.3.7.2 Introduction of the "Pillar Fracturing" Technique; 1.3.7.3 Gas Research Institute Founded; 1.3.7.4 Development of New Fracturing Fluids; 1.3.7.5 Expansion of Massive Hydraulic Fracturing; 1.3.8 Landmark Concepts That Forever Changed Fracture Stimulation Design and Modeling; 1.3.8.1 Introduction of Theories of Fracture Extension "Net Pressure" and "Minifrac" to Identify Net Pressure and Fluid Leakoff (Ken Nolte and Mike Smith) |
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1.3.8.2 The Gas Research Institute Tight Gas Sands Project from 1982-19871.3.8.3 Gas Research Institute Sponsored Fracturing Study at Rifle, Colorado, in 1983; 1.3.8.4 Laboratory Evaluations of More Realistic Conductivity Testing; 1.3.8.5 Teaching Fracture Stimulation Technology; 1.3.9 Mid-1980s: Greatest Crash in Oilfield History; 1.3.9.1 Glory Years for the United States Oilfield ... Then the Crash; 1.3.9.2 New Fracture Simulation Software Introduced; 1.3.9.3 Horizontal Wells First Become More Common; 1.3.9.4 Digital Electronics Become Dominant in Stimulation Oilfield Equipment |
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1.3.9.5 Late 1980s Bring the Digital Frac Van |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Soliman, Mohamed Y
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| ISBN |
9781351618229 |
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1351618229 |
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