In the area of hydraulic fracturing, the planar 3D fracture is conventionally used to denote the fracture that is arbitrary in shape but remains on a plane. In the heterogeneous parallel layer formations, it only includes the fracture that is perpendicular to the layer interfaces. In addition to the conventional symmetric planar 3D hydraulic fracture which occurs in horizontal layer formations with vertical wells, the planar 3D fracture in FrackOptima also includes the asymmetric fracture in reservoirs with inclined wells and tilted formation layers. Other features of Planar3D simulator include:

Multiple fractures along multiple perforation intervals

Heterogeneity include stress, Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, toughness, pore pressure, leakoff, and spurtloss

Linear elastic fracture

Power law fluid flow

Multistage slurry injections with multiple fluids and proppants

Proppant concentration dependent slurry rheology (Shah’s model)

Pressure dependent fluid leakoff

Conserved proppant transport and settlement

Crack tip mechanism covering viscosity and toughness controlled fracture growth as well as fluid lag

Wellbore mechanics for fluid distributions along long perforation ranges

Seamless screen-out simulation

Shut-in simulation all the way to the final fully proppant-packed fracture

Simultaneous visualization and analysis of simulating results

A few to tens of minutes simulation time for most practical cases