Experimental investigation of shale gas production impairment due to fracturing fluid migration during shut-in time

Hydraulic fracturing has been applied to exploit hydrocarbon resources for a number of decades. During the fracturing process, large amounts of pressurized fracturing fluid is injected to create and to propagate the fracture. In the exploitation of unconventional reservoirs, fracturing fluid recovery can be very low and even less than 10%. Any unrecovered fracturing fluid can be imbibed into the formation and block the rock pores, thus reducing...