Special Session: Highlights from American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)

Thursday, 6 February

1300 - 1440

Waterway Ballroom 5-8

Technical and Invited Presenter

The American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) is a professional engineering society that promotes rock mechanics and geomechanics research and applications. This special session highlights this year’s best ARMA papers related to HFTC attendees. These papers were presented at the ARMA 2024 Golden symposium and are available online. They focus predominantly on the modeling aspects related to hydraulic fracturing and proppant transport, while some incorporate field studies.

Chairperson

Shannon Higgins - SM Energy Company

Egor Dontsov - ResFrac Corporation

1300-1325
Quantifying non-API Proppant Transport and Fracture Permeability as a Function of Solids Loading and Particle Shape

C. Leonardi, University of Queensland
1325-1350
Heart-shape to Fracture Distance: Characterizing Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Before Hits

G. Jin, Colorado School of Mines
1350-1415
Combining Laboratory Experiment and Multi-scale Modeling to Investigate Production Enhancement Effect of Microproppants

Y. Han, ARAMCO Services Company
1415-1440
Recent Microfrac in-situ stress measurement methodologies to overcome near-wellbore poroelastic effects

J. Franquet, Baker Hughes

2025 Technical Program

Special Session: Highlights from American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)