Craig et al. (2017) present data and claim it refutes the fracture compliance method – actually, it shows the exact opposite
![The figure from Craig et al. (2017) also shows the concurrent fluid pressure, but I have shown only the tilt for clarity.](https://www.resfrac.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/da1386_532bd9ed7e8c4ad397eaf5a8231eed93mv2.png)
Introduction Back in February, I was at an SPE DFIT workshop where David Craig (one of the vocal advocates of the ‘holistic’ method of picking fracture closure) said that he […]