Thermo-hydro-mechanical effects of hydraulic fracturing on depressurization-induced gas production from natural gas hydrate reservoirs: a numerical study
A MATLAB-based thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) simulator incorporating the Snow equivalent-permeability tensor was developed for hydraulic-fracturing-assisted depressurization of natural gas hydrate reservoirs in a two-dimensional axisymmetric domain. Validation against Shenhu field-production data, TOUGH+Hydrate benchma...