Laboratory scale research on the impact of stress shadow and natural fractures on fracture geometry during horizontal multi-staged fracturing in shale

Influence of Geologic Discontinuities on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation (includes associated papers 17011 and 17074 )

N. R. Warpinski, Lawrence W. Teufel · Journal of Petroleum Technology · 1987 · 943 citations

Engineering, Fracture Surveillance, Earth Science +22

An experimentally verified criterion for propagation across unbounded frictional interfaces in brittle, linear elastic materials

Carl E. Renshaw, David D. Pollard · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences & Geomechanics Abstracts · 1995 · 541 citations

Materials Science, Nonlinear Elasticity, Engineering +12

Optimizing Horizontal Completion Techniques in the Barnett Shale Using Microseismic Fracture Mapping

M. K. Fisher, J. R. Heinze, Chris Harris et al. · SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition · 2004 · 525 citations

Rock Testing, Engineering, Petroleum Production Engineering +26

Analysis of fracture propagation behavior and fracture geometry using a tri-axial fracturing system in naturally fractured reservoirs

Jian Zhou, Mian Chen, Yan Jin et al. · International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences · 2008 · 520 citations

Hydraulic Fracturing, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +9

An Experimental Study of Interaction Between Hydraulically Induced and Pre-Existing Fractures

T.L. Blanton · SPE Unconventional Gas Recovery Symposium · 1982 · 434 citations

Rock Testing, Engineering, Abstract Hydraulic +19