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| Fracture
research at the Bureau seeks fundamental understanding of fractures
and fracture processes with the aim of improved prediction and diagnosis
of fracture attributes in the subsurface. Research is organized
around the Fracture Research and Application Consortium (FRAC),
an alliance of scientists from the Bureau and the departments of
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and Geological Sciences.
Fracture
Research News |
Current Studies |
Predicting
Fracture Porosity Evolution in Sandstone, supported by the Chemical
Sciences, Geosciences and Bioscience Division, Office of Basic Energy
Sciences (BES), Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy.
[Description] |
JSG Structural Diagenesis [Description] [structural diagenesis web site] |
Advanced
Technology for Predicting the Fluid-Flow Attributes of Naturally Fractured
Reservoirs from Quantitative Geologic Data and Modeling
[Description] |
Fracture
Research and Application Consortium -
See this site for a complete current list of natural fracture and hydraulic fracture research at the Bureau [Link] |
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| Completed
Studies |
| Combining
a New 3-D Seismic S-Wave Propagation Analysis for Remote Fracture
Detection with a Robust Subsurface Microfracture-Based Verification
Technique [Description] |
| Integrated
Outcrop and Subsurface Studies of the Interwell Environment of Carbonate
Reservoirs: Clear Fork (Leonardian Age) Reservoirs, West Texas and
New Mexico [Description] |
Scaling
of Fractures in Carbonate Reservoirs and Relations with
Sequence-Stratigraphic Framework [Description] |
| Geologic
Characterization of Fractured Reservoir Block Size Using Microcrack
Data [Description] |
Using
Microstructure Observations to Quantify Fracture Properties
and Improve Reservoir Simulations [Description] |
