Hydraulic Fracture Geometry

Is determined by
Completion
design
Pore pressure
Geological parameters Operational parameters
Present-day in-
situ stresses Injection flow rate
Such as Such as

Fracturing fluid
Pre-existing viscosity
natural fractures That favor the
generation of
Weak bedding
Fracturing
planes
pressure

Vertical secondary
Horizontal fractures
fractures

That Reservoir fluid

That harm
enhance production