Hydraulic fracturing is a mainstream technology for unconventional oil and gas reservoirs development all over the world.How to use this technology to achieve high-level oil and gas resource extraction and how to form...Hydraulic fracturing is a mainstream technology for unconventional oil and gas reservoirs development all over the world.How to use this technology to achieve high-level oil and gas resource extraction and how to form complex fracture networks as hydrocarbon transportation channels in tight reservoirs,which depends to a large extent on the interaction between hydraulic and pre-existing cracks.For hydraulic fracturing of fractured reservoirs,the impact of natural fractures,perforation direction,stress disturbances,faults and other influencing factors will produce a mixed I&II mode hydraulic fracture.To forecast whether hydraulic fractures cross pre-existing fractures,according to elastic mechanics and fracture mechanics,a stress state of cracks under the combination of tensile(I)and shear(II)is presented.A simple mixed-mode I&II hydraulic fracture's crossing judgment criterion is established,and the propagation of hydraulic fractures after encountering natural fractures is analyzed.The results show that for a given approaching angle there exists a certain range of stress ratio when crossing occurs.Under high approaching angle and large stress ratio,it is likely that hydraulic cracks will go directly through pre-existing cracks.The reinitiated angle is always controlled within the range of approximately 30among the main direction of penetration.展开更多
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文摘Hydraulic fracturing is a mainstream technology for unconventional oil and gas reservoirs development all over the world.How to use this technology to achieve high-level oil and gas resource extraction and how to form complex fracture networks as hydrocarbon transportation channels in tight reservoirs,which depends to a large extent on the interaction between hydraulic and pre-existing cracks.For hydraulic fracturing of fractured reservoirs,the impact of natural fractures,perforation direction,stress disturbances,faults and other influencing factors will produce a mixed I&II mode hydraulic fracture.To forecast whether hydraulic fractures cross pre-existing fractures,according to elastic mechanics and fracture mechanics,a stress state of cracks under the combination of tensile(I)and shear(II)is presented.A simple mixed-mode I&II hydraulic fracture's crossing judgment criterion is established,and the propagation of hydraulic fractures after encountering natural fractures is analyzed.The results show that for a given approaching angle there exists a certain range of stress ratio when crossing occurs.Under high approaching angle and large stress ratio,it is likely that hydraulic cracks will go directly through pre-existing cracks.The reinitiated angle is always controlled within the range of approximately 30among the main direction of penetration.
