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Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
(CPGE)
The University of Texas at Austin
Introduction
The Hydraulic Fracturing and Sand Control project, established in 2006, consists of 14 projects (8 related to fracturing and 6 related to sand control). Each member company contributes $50,000 per year as a grant to the University and in return receives all the research results from the projects underway.
Projects
Hydraulic Fracturing
- F1 - Energized fractures in tight gas sands/gas shales (Sharma)
- F2 - Refracturing and stress reorientation in sand/shales (Sharma)
- F3 - Proppant placement/transport in fractures (Sharma)
- F4 - Removal of water blocks in ultra-tight rocks (Pope, Sharma)
- F5 - Improving the conductivity of Proppant packs (Sharma, Pope)
- F6 - Refracturing: Statistical analysis of field data (Sharma)
- F7 - Productivity of fractured wells (Sharma)
- F8 - Optimizing wellbore and fracture placement to maximize hydrocarbon recovery (Sharma)
Sand Control
- S1 - Fracture mechanics in poorly consolidated sands (Sharma)
- S2/S3 - For Mechanical, failure and flow properties of sands: Micro-mechanical models & experimental measurements (Olson, Sharma)
- S4 - Sand control strategies in water/waste injection wells (Sharma)
- S5 - Perforation stability in poorly consolidated sands (Sharma)
- S6 - Pressure transients and flow in wellbores and implications for sand-face failure and sand production (Sharma)
Sponsor Information
Please see the Sponsor Information Area (password required) for information available to Hydraulic Fracturing & Sand Control project sponsors.
Principal Investigators
- Mukul M. Sharma, msharma@mail.utexas.edu
- Jon E. Olson, jolson@mail.utexas.edu
- Gary A. Pope, gpope@mail.utexas.edu
How to Join
To become a sponsor of the Hydraulic Fracturing & Sand Control Project, notify Mukul Sharma, stating your interest or intent. We will then send you a research participation agreement to be executed by your company and The University of Texas. You can contact us by mail, phone, fax, or e-mail as follows:
Dr. Mukul M. Sharma
Center for Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
CPE 2.502
Austin, Texas 78712Phone: (512) 471-3257
Fax: (512) 471-9605
E-mail: msharma@mail.utexas.edu