HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

О курсе

About the course

Currently, hydraulic fracturing is one of the most effective methods for increasing oil recovery of productive formations and liquid and gas inflow stimulation. The hydraulic fracturing method is to create a highly conductive fracture in the target formation to ensure the fluid inflow (gas, water, condensate, oil or a mixture of them) to the bottom-hole.
This course presents theoretical bases and key aspects of hydraulic fracturing, considers materials and equipment for hydraulic fracturing, complications that arise during hydraulic fracturing, safety instructions for operation, and much more.
This massive open online course is a training video lecture providing students with organized information about the main aspects of hydraulic fracturing, well servicing units, equipment and tools used for operation, hydraulic fracturing material control.
Each unit is provided with end-of-unit test to control the knowledge acquired by students.

Результат

Expected results Studying the course is aimed to form the following general (GC) and professional (PC) competencies:
GC-5: critical thinking, generalization, ability to analyze and synthesize, make and defend decisions.
GC-6: the ability to generalize the practical results of the work and offer new solutions, to summarize and argue for their decisions.
GC-9: the ability to independently plan, carry out, process and evaluate the experiment.
GC-10: the ability to creatively comprehend the results of the experiment, work out recommendations for their practical use, produce scientific ideas.
PC-1: the ability to perform complex engineering and technical developments in the field of technosphere safety.
PC-3: the ability to improve human safety from the impact of various negative factors in the technosphere.
PC-10: the ability to analyze, improve and apply modern information technologies when solving scientific problems.
PC-13: the ability to apply analysis methods and safety evaluation and man-made risk.

Формируемые компетенции

Competences to be built when studying the course

GC-5: critical thinking, generalization, ability to analyze and synthesize, make and defend decisions.
GC-6: the ability to generalize the practical results of the work and offer new solutions, to summarize and argue for their decisions.
GC-9: the ability to independently plan, carry out, process and evaluate the experiment.
GC-10: the ability to creatively comprehend the results of the experiment, work out recommendations for their practical use, produce scientific ideas.
PC-1: the ability to perform complex engineering and technical developments in the field of technosphere safety.
PC-3: the ability to improve human safety from the impact of various negative factors in the technosphere.
PC-10: the ability to analyze, improve and apply modern information technologies when solving scientific problems.
PC-13: the ability to apply analysis methods and safety evaluation and man-made risk.

Входные требования

Entrance Requirements

To master this discipline, the student must know: fundamentals of oil and gas geology, methods of operating oil and gas wells, fundamentals of well workover, basic engineering calculations.

Содержание курса

Unit 1. The concept of the bottom hole zone (BHZ) contamination. The concept of the skin factor.
Unit 2. Basics of hydraulic fracturing.
Unit 3. Materials used in hydraulic fracturing
Unit 4. Equipment used for hydraulic fracturing
Unit 5. Fracturing design concept
Unit 6. Fracturing material quality control
Unit 7. Fracturing fluids
Unit 8. Hydraulic fracturing auditing
Unit 9. Hydraulic fracturing troubles
Unit 10. Safety instructions for hydraulic fracturing