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oilandgasmick wrote: Here is a quick google to help you understand why high clay content is detrimental to fracking. It is certainly not an old wive's tale. You want more quartz rich (Si-O2) minerals because they are more brittle and thus easier to frack.
"A high clay content is generally considered to be detrimental to the reservoir during fracturing because it can reduce or block pore throats after hydraulic fracturing due to the retained injection fluid."
i understand all that, brittle rock crack easier. Geology 101 or there is a huge study just to say brittle rock frack easier.
A New Evaluation Method for the Fracability of a Shale Reservoir Based on the Structural Properties (hindawi.com)
you still haven't explain how quartz vs clay content of a rock dictate the frac orientation preference. You are still circling around my question, not answering it yet.