Abstract

Hydraulic fracturing is widely used in geothermal resource exploitation, and many natural fractures exist in hot dry rock reservoirs due to in-situ stress and faults. However, the influence of natural fractures on hydraulic fracture propagation is not considered in the current study. In this paper, based on the phase field model, a thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled hydraulic fracture propagation model was established to reveal the influence of injection time, fracturing method, injection flow rate, and natural fracture distribution on the fracture propagation mechanism. The results show that fracture complexity increases with an increase in injection time. The stress disturbance causes the fracture initiation pressure of the second cluster significantly higher than that of the first and third clusters. The zipper-type fracturing method can reduce the degree of stress disturbance and increase fracture complexity by 7.2% compared to simultaneous hydraulic fracturing. Both low and high injection flow rate lead to a decrease in fracture propagation time, which is not conducive to an increase in fracture complexity. An increase in the natural fracture angle leads to hydraulic fracture crossing natural fracture, but has a lesser effect on fracture complexity. In this paper, we analyzed the influence of different factors on initiation pressure and fracture complexity, providing valuable guidance for the exploitation of geothermal resources.

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