Dynamically modeling a hydraulic fracture

Abstract

Techniques for determining a hydraulic fracture dimension include identifying pressure signal values of a first fracturing fluid in a monitor wellbore that represent a pressure change in the first fracturing fluid that is induced by formation of a second hydraulic fracture from a treatment wellbore; determining a particular pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values; based on the determined particular pressure signal value, determining a particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture formed from the treatment wellbore; and determining, based at least in part on (i) the determined particular dimension, and (ii) a first pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values that is less than the determined particular pressure signal value, a first intermediate dimension of the second hydraulic fracture that is less than the determined particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A structured data processing system for determining a hydraulic fracture dimension, comprising:
 one or more hardware processors;   a memory in communication with the one or more hardware processors, the memory storing a data structure and an execution environment, the data structure storing data that comprises a plurality of pressure signal values of a first fracturing fluid in a monitor wellbore, formed from a terranean surface into a subsurface formation, the first fracturing fluid in direct fluid communication with a first hydraulic fracture formed from the monitor wellbore into the subsurface formation, each of the plurality of pressure signal values comprising a pressure change in the first fracturing fluid that is induced by formation of a second hydraulic fracture from a treatment wellbore in the subsurface formation, the second hydraulic fracture formed by a second fracturing fluid in the treatment wellbore, the execution environment comprising:
 a fracture growth solver configured to perform operations comprising:
 determining a particular pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values; 
 based on the determined particular pressure signal value, determining a particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture formed from the treatment wellbore; and 
 determining, based at least in part on (i) the determined particular dimension, and (ii) a first pressure signal value of the plurality of pressure signal values that is less than the determined particular pressure signal value, a first intermediate dimension of the second hydraulic fracture that is less than the determined particular dimension of the second hydraulic fracture; 
 
 a user interface module that generates a user interface that renders one or more graphical representations of the determined first intermediate dimension of the second hydraulic fracture; and 
 a transmission module that transmits, over one or more communication protocols and to a computing device, data that represents the one or more graphical representations.