公开(公告)号：US10738578B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US15315943

申请日：2015-06-05

Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

Inventor： Dimitry Chuprakov ,  Romain Charles Andre Prioul ,  Xiaowei Weng

IPC: E21B43/26 ,  E21B49/00 ,  E21B43/00

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a method for hydraulic fracturing a subterranean formation traversed by a wellbore including characterizing the formation using measured properties of the formation, including mechanical properties of geological interfaces, identifying a formation fracture height wherein the identifying comprises calculating a contact of a hydraulic fracture surface with geological interfaces, and fracturing the formation wherein a fluid viscosity or a fluid flow rate or both are selected using the calculating. Embodiments herein also relate to a method for hydraulic fracturing a subterranean formation traversed by a wellbore including measuring the formation comprising mechanical properties of geological interfaces, characterizing the formation using the measurements, calculating a formation fracture height using the formation characterization, calculating an optimum fracture height using the measurements, and comparing the optimum fracture height to the formation fracture height.