Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Influenced by Spatially-Varied Natural Fracture Properties


Wei Fu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Alexei A Savitski, Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Houston, TX, United States, Branko Damjanac, Itasca Consulting Group, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Andrew Bunger, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States