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Title:
INTERPRETATION AND DESIGN OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TREATMENTS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2003067025
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
Solutions for the propagation of a hydraulic fracture in a permeable elastic rock and driven by injection of a Newtonian fluid. Through scaling, the dependence of the solution on the problem parameters is reduced to a small number of dimensionless parameters.

Inventors:
DETOURNAY EMMANUEL (US)
ADACHI JOSE IGNACIO (US)
GARAGASH DMITRI IGOR (US)
SAVITSKI ALEXEI A (FR)
Application Number:
PCT/US2003/002985
Publication Date:
February 26, 2004
Filing Date:
January 31, 2003
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Assignee:
UNIV MINNESOTA (US)
DETOURNAY EMMANUEL (US)
ADACHI JOSE IGNACIO (US)
GARAGASH DMITRI IGOR (US)
SAVITSKI ALEXEI A (FR)
International Classes:
E21B43/26; (IPC1-7): E21B49/00; E21B43/26
Foreign References:
US6076046A2000-06-13
EP0589591A11994-03-30
US4848461A1989-07-18
EP0456339A21991-11-13
US4797821A1989-01-10
US6101447A2000-08-08
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