SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1999
STP13306S

Active and Passive Acoustic Imaging Inside a Large-Scale Polyaxial Hydraulic Fracture Test

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An automated laboratory hydraulic fracture experiment has been assembled to determine what rock and treatment parameters are crucial to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of field hydraulic fractures. To this end a large (460 mm cubic sample) polyaxial cell, with servo-controlled X, Y, Z, pore pressure, crack-mouth-opening-displacement, and bottom hole pressure, was built. Active imaging with embedded seismic diffraction arrays images the geometry of the fracture. Preliminary tests indicate fracture extent can be imaged to within 5%. Unique embeddible high-fidelity particle velocity AE sensors were designed and calibrated to allow determination of fracture source kinematics.

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Glaser, SD
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Dudley, JW
Shell Exploration and Production Co., Houston, TX
Shlyapobersky, J
Shell Exploration and Production Co., Houston, TX
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Developed by Committee: D18
Pages: 14–28
DOI: 10.1520/STP13306S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5400-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-2493-6