Subsections

6.3 Hydraulic fracturing in tight formations

6.3.1 Design: Pads, wellbores, stages and clusters

6.3.2 Fracture interference and interaction

6.3.3 Fracture swarms

6.3.3.1 Impact of heterogeneity

6.3.3.2 Fracture branching and splitting

6.3.3.3 Subcritical fracture propagation

6.3.3.4 Nucleation from diffuse excess pore pressure

6.3.4 Monitoring: microseismicity and fiber optics