Unified Fracture Design Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

The purpose of writing this book is to establish a unified design methodology for hydraulic fracture treatments, a long established well stimulation activity in the petroleum and related industries. Few activities in the industry hold such potential to improve well performance both profitably and reliably.
The word «unified» has been selected deliberately to denote both the integration of all the highly diverse technological aspects of the process, but also to dispel the popular notion that there is one type of treatment that applies to low-permeability and another to high-permeability reservoirs. It is natural, even for experienced practitioners to think so because traditional targets have been low-permeability reservoirs while the fracturing of high-permeability formations has sprung from the gravel pack, sand control practice.