Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks

Wen Chen author Christian La Borderie author Thierry Reess author Olivier Maurel author Franck Rey-Berbeder author Antoine de Ferron author Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:2nd Feb '16

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This book presents a new fracturing technique that should be considered as a potential alternative, or a companion technique, to hydraulic fracturing of tight gas reservoirs and low permeability rock masses. As opposed to hydraulic fracturing which generates a few numbers of large cracks, electro-hydraulic fracturing induces diffuse micro-cracking and fragmentation of rocks. Laboratory tests demonstrate that increases of permeability by two orders of magnitude can be reached, without major cracking in tested specimens. This book discusses the principles of this new technique, reports experiments which have been developed is order to prove the concept and finally describes the numerical model from which the potentialities of this technique in representative reservoir conditions can be assessed.

ISBN: 9781848217102

Dimensions: 234mm x 155mm x 8mm

Weight: 200g

130 pages