RETRACTED: Numerical modeling of hydraulic fracture propagation: Accounting for the effect of stresses on the interaction between hydraulic and parallel natural fractures

Egyptian Journal of Petroleum (2015) 24, 231

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RETRACTED: Numerical modeling of hydraulic fracture propagation: Accounting for the effect of stresses on the interaction between hydraulic and parallel natural fractures Jaber Taheri Shakib Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Jomuri Street, Kerman, Iran

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of EGYJP committee’s decision and after precise investigation. It is ultimately obvious that the article titled: ‘‘Numerical modeling of hydraulic fracture propagation: Accounting for the effect of stresses on the interaction between hydraulic and parallel natural fractures’’ by its author Jaber Taheri Shakib is totally plagiarized from the thesis titled: ‘‘Analysis of hydraulic fracture propagation in fractured reservoirs: An improved model

DOI of original article: 10.1016/j.ejpe.2013.11.010. Peer review under responsibility of Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpe.2014.12.001

for the interaction between induced and natural fractures’’ by Arash Dahi Taleghani; http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18381; beginning from the abstract passing through chapter 3. Even the conclusion of chapter 3 is copied directly from the thesis: ‘‘Analysis of hydraulic fracture propagation in fractured reservoirs: An improved model for the interaction between induced and natural fractures’’, a matter which leads the committee to take its final decision of retracting the mentioned article from volume no. 22 issue 4 and blacklisting its author Dr. Jaber Taheri Shakib from our journal.