Brice Lecampion
EPFL ENAC IIC GEL
GC B1 391 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
CH-1015 Lausanne
Unité: SGC-ENS
Biography
I am currently an assistant Professor and the head of the Geo-Energy Lab - Gaznat Chair on GeoEnergy at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Prior to joining EPFL, I have worked for Schlumberger in research and development from 2006 until May 2015 - serving in a variety of roles ranging from project manager to principal scientist in both Europe and the United States. I received my PhD in mechanics from Ecole Polytechnique, France in 2002 and worked as a research scientist in the hydraulic fracturing research group of CSIRO division of Petroleum resources (Melbourne, Australia) from 2003 to 2006.
During my time in Schlumberger R&D, I have worked on problems related to the integrity of deep wells, large scale monitoring of reservoir deformation and more specifically on the stimulation of oil and gas wells by hydraulic fracturing.
My current research interests cover hydraulic fracture mechanics, mechanics of porous media and dense suspensions flow.
Education
| PhD | Mechanics | Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France | 2002 |
| Ing�nieur | G�ophysique-G�otechnique | UPMC, Paris | 1999 |
Compétences
Mechanics of porous media,
Hydraulic fracturing,
Dense suspensions flow,
Geomechanics,
Geo-energy,
Rock mechanics
Hydraulic fracturing,
Dense suspensions flow,
Geomechanics,
Geo-energy,
Rock mechanics
Publications
Infoscience
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2019
Journal Articles
D. Liu; B. Lecampion : Propagation of a fluid-driven fracture with fracture length dependent apparent toughness; Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 2019-08-21. DOI : 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.106616.
F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion : Effect of dilatancy on the transition from aseismic to seismic slip due to fluid injection in a fault; Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 2019-05-25. DOI : 10.1029/2018JB016636.
H. Zia; B. Lecampion : Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth; International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2019. DOI : 10.1002/nag.2898.
Conference Papers
F.-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion; H. Zia : Propagation of a planar hydraulic fracture perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material. 2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium , New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.
D. Nikolskiy; B. Lecampion; H. Pourpak; A. Onaisi : Effects of spatial variation of cluster entry friction on hydraulic fracture propagation in multistage fracturing. 2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.
D. Liu; B. Lecampion : Growth of a radial hydraulic fracture accounting for the viscous fluid flow in a rough cohesive zone. 2019. 2019 ARMA-CUPB Geothermal International Conference, Beijing, China, August 5-8, 2019.
2018
Journal Articles
H. Zia; B. Lecampion; W. Zhang : Impact of the anisotropy of fracture toughness on the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fracture; International Journal of Fracture. 2018-03-16. DOI : 10.1007/s10704-018-0278-7.
S. G. Mogilevskaya; B. Lecampion : A lined hole in a viscoelastic rock under biaxial far-field stress; International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2018.02.019.
F.-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion : A semi-infinite hydraulic fracture driven by a shear-thinning fluid; Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2018. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2017.900.
B. Lecampion; A. Bunger; X. Zhang : Numerical methods for hydraulic fracture propagation: a review of recent trends; Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jngse.2017.10.012.
Conference Papers
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches : Accounting for near-wellbore fracture behavior to unlock the potential of unconventional gas wells. 2018-06-29. 27th World Gas Conference, Washington, DC, USA, June 25-29.
Talks
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic fracture growth in transversely isotropic rocks ; Warren Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic fracture growth & turbulent flow ; Departmental seminar, Skolkovo Institute of Technology, Moscow.
D. Liu; B. Lecampion : Propagation of a Radial Fluid-driven Fracture in Nonlinear Solid --around the tip of a fluid-driven fracture: process zone vs deviated fluid flow ; International Summer School on Mechanics and Physics of Stretchable Objects (MEPHiSTO 2018), Cargese, Corsica, France, 7-17 August 2018 .
B. Lecampion : Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracture growth: advances & remaining challenges ; 10th European Sold Mechanics Conference, Bologna, Italy, July 2-6, 2018.
B. Lecampion : The Importance of coupling wellbore hydraulic & simultaneous fractures propagation in multistage design ; 2018 ARMA-DGS Workshop: the Role of Geomechanics in Stimulations, Bahrain, April 3-5, 2018.
B. Lecampion; H. Zia : Slickwater is not water ; Hydraulic Fracturing: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiment workshop 18w5085 - Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, June 3-8.
2017
Journal Articles
M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; S. Mogilevskaya : The Role of Geological Barriers in Achieving Robust Well Integrity; Energy Procedia. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1673.
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches; R. G. Jeffrey; A. P. Bunger : Experiments versus theory for the initiation and propagation of radial hydraulic fractures in low permeability materials; Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2016JB013183.
H. Zia; B. Lecampion : Propagation of a height contained hydraulic fracture in turbulent flow regimes; International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2016.12.029.
Book Chapters
A. Bunger; B. Lecampion : Four Critical Issues for Successful Hydraulic Fracturing Applications; Rock Mechanics and Engineering; CRC Press, 2017.
Posters
D. Liu; B. Lecampion; L. Benedetti : Modeling of the propagation of hydraulic fracture using cohesive zone models ; 15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, November 17-18,2017.
F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion : Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault ; 2nd Induced Seismicity Workshop, Davos-Schatzalp, March 14-17, 2017.
F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion : Effect of dilatancy on a frictional weakening fault subjected to fluid injection ; European Geoscience Union, Vienna, April 23-28, 2017.
F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion : Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault ; 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Champs-sur-Marne, Paris, July 9-13, 2017.
Talks
B. Lecampion; H. Zia : Modeling the growth of planar 3D hydraulic fractures in the presence of in-situ stress contrast.
F.-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion : Tip asymptotic of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid accounting for the presence of a fluid lag ; 6th International Conference on Coupled THMC Processes in Geosystems, Paris, France, July 5-7, 2017.
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic Fractures – Modeling and realities ; Workshop on Multiphysics, Multiscale, and Coupled Problems in Subsurface Physics, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, An NSF Math Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca, USA, April 3-7, 2017.
B. Lecampion : Geothermal for Electricity Production: dreams & realities ; Geothermal Energy Day, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 23, 2017.
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity ; 2nd Schatzalp workshop on Induced Seismicity, Davos, Switzerland, March 14-17, 2017.
Patents
B. Lecampion; E. Siebrits; R. Prioul ; Schlumberger / Schlumberger Limited: In-situ property determination. US2017204726 . 2017-07-20.
2016
Conference Papers
M. Loizzo; B. Lecampion; S. Mogilevskaya : The role of geological barriers in achieving robust well integrity. 2016. 13th Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-13), Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 14-18, 2016.
H. Zia; B. Lecampion : Laminar - turbulent transition in the propagation of height contained hydraulic fracture. 2016. American Rock Mechanics Association Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 26-29, 2016.
Posters
F.-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion : The tip region of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid ; SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2016, Sion, Switzerland, September 12-13, 2016.
F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion : Fluid injection in a frictional weakening fracture ; SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2016, Sion, Switzerland, September 13, 2016.
F.-E. Moukhtari; B. Lecampion : The tip region of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid ; 14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.
T. Blum; B. Lecampion : Acoustic monitoring of laboratory hydraulic fracture growth under stress and pore pressure ; 14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.
D. Nikolskiy; B. Lecampion : Simulating fully three-dimensional pressurized fracture propagation ; 14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.
F. Ciardo; B. Lecampion : Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault ; 14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.
Talks
B. Lecampion : Impact of the propagation algorithm on the convergence rate of hydraulic fracturing simulator to reference solutions ; ECCOMAS Congress 2016, Crete Island, Greece, June 5-10, 2016.
H. Zia; B. Lecampion : Implicit level set scheme to model the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fractures ; 14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.
H. Zia; B. Lecampion : Turbulent - laminar transition in the propagation of height-contained hydraulic fracture ; European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 17–22, 2016.
B. Lecampion : Fluid Driven Fractures – Modeling and realities ; SCCER / SoE Geo-Energy seminar, Zurich, Switzerland, October 14, 2016.
B. Lecampion : Fluid-driven fractures: modeling and realities ; Annual MAGS-2 / SHynergie Projects Workshop, Bochum, Germany, October 4-5, 2016.
Patents
R. Prioul; F. Karpfinger; G. Waters; B. Lecampion ; Method to optimize perforations for hydraulic fracturing in anisotropic earth formations. US9376902 . 2016.
2015
Journal Articles
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches : Robustness to formation geological heterogeneities of the limited entry technique for multi-stage fracturing of horizontal wells; Rock Mechanics And Rock Engineering. 2015. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-015-0836-5.
S. Oh; Y.-Q. Song; D. I. Garagash; B. Lecampion; J. Desroches : Pressure-Driven Suspension Flow near Jamming; Physical Review Letters. 2015. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.088301.
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches : Simultaneous initiation and growth of multiple radial hydraulic fractures from a horizontal wellbore; Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2015.05.010.
Conference Papers
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches : Geomechanical drivers of the (in)-efficiencies of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. 2015. Second EAGE Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy, Celle, Germany, October 13-15, 2015.
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches : Modeling Simultaneous Initiation and Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore. 2015. 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 13), San Diego, Ca, July 26-30, 2015.
B. Lecampion : Well Integrity and CO2 injection: Interface debonding in a cased and cemented wellbore as a potential risk. 2015. Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, Barcelona, Spain, June 2--4, 2015.
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches; X. Weng; J. Burghardt; E. Brown : Can we engineer better multistage horizontal completions? Evidence of the importance of near-wellbore fracture geometry from theory, lab and field experiments. 2015. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, February 3-5, 2015.
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches; R. Jeffrey; A. Bunger; J. Burghardt : Initiation versus Breakdown pressure of transverse hydraulic fracture: theory and experiments. 2015. 13th ISRM International Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Montreal, May 10-13, 2015.
J. Burghardt; J. Desroches; B. Lecampion; S. Stanchits; A. Surdi et al. : Laboratory study of the Effect of well Orientation, Completion Design and rock fabric on near-wellbore hydraulic fracture geometry in shales. 2015. 13th ISRM International Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Montreal, May 10-13, 2015.
Talks
B. Lecampion : Particle laden fluids in hydraulic fracturing ; 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachussets, USA, November 21-23, 2015.
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resources development: challenges & opportunities for the mechanical community ; ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas, USA, November 13-19, 2015.
B. Lecampion; A. Savitski : Introduction to Hydraulic Fracturing Practices in the Oil and Gas Industry ; Institute for Mathematics and its Application - Hot-Topic Workshop:Hydraulic Fracturing: From Modeling and Simulation to Reconstruction and Characterization, May 16, 2015.
2014
Journal Articles
B. Lecampion; D. I. Garagash : Confined flow of suspensions modelled by a frictional rheology; Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2014. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2014.557.
Conference Papers
B. Lecampion; J. Desroches : Simultaneous Initiation and propagation of multiple transverse hydraulic fractures in a horizontal well. 2014. 48th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1--4 June, 2014.
J. Desroches; B. Lecampion; H. Ramakrishnan; R. Prioul; E. Brown : Benefits of Controlled Hydraulic Fracture Placement: Theory and Field Experiment. 2014. SPE/CSUR Unconventional Resources Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2014.
S. Abbas; E. Gordeliy; A. Peirce; B. Lecampion; D. Chuprakov et al. : Limited Height Growth and Reduced Opening of Hydraulic Fractures due to FractureOffsets: An XFEM Application. 2014. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 4--6 February, 2014.
Reports
B. Lecampion : 1DPlanarHF - Simulation of the initiation and propagation of a single plane-strain or radial hydraulic fracture: algorithm description. 2014.
Talks
B. Lecampion : Simultaneous initiation and propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures from a horizontal well ; Reunion Thématique du Comité Français de Mécanique des Roches - Fracturation artificielle des roches, October 16, 2014.
B. Lecampion : Complex fluid proppant placement in the hydraulic fracturing of oil gas wells ; Seminar School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, March 26, 2014.
Patents
B. Lecampion; R. Prioul ; Competition between transverse and axial hydraulic fractures in horizontal well. US2015218925 ; CN104755699 ; WO2014028432 . 2014.
2013
Journal Articles
B. Lecampion; A. Bunger; J. Kear; D. Quesada : Interface debonding driven by fluid injection in a cased and cemented wellbore: Modeling and experiments; International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.07.012.
B. Lecampion : A macroscopic poromechanical model of cement hydration; European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering. 2013. DOI : 10.1080/19648189.2013.768554.
Conference Papers
S. Abbas; E. Gordeliy; B. Lecampion; A. Peirce : Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing using the XFEM. 2013. Society of Engineering Science, ASME-AMD Summer Meeting, Brown University School of Engineering, Providence, RI, USA.
B. Lecampion; S. Abbas; R. Prioul : Competition between transverse and axial hydraulic fractures in horizontal wells. 2013. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 4--6 February, 2013.
S. Abbas; B. Lecampion : Initiation and Breakdown of an Axisymmetric Hydraulic Fracture Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore. 2013. The International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing, Brisbane, Australia, May 20--22, 2013.
Reports
B. Lecampion; D. Garagash : Lubrication flow of wet granular medium / dense suspension. 2013.
Talks
B. Lecampion : Crystallization Preferred Orientation induced by mechanical stresses ; Strains induced by phase changes in deformable porous solids: What about building materials ? A workshop supported by Lafarge, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, July 8, 2013.
B. Lecampion : Interface debonding driven by fluid injection in a cased and cemented wellbore ; Friday Geoseminar, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, April 5, 2013.
Patents
R. Prioul; F. Karpfinger; G. Waters; B. Lecampion ; Method to optimize perforations for hydraulic fracturing in anisotropic earth formations. US2013206475 . 2013.
2012
Journal Articles
B. Lecampion : Modeling size effects associated with tensile fracture initiation from a wellbore; International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2012.07.024.
Conference Papers
S. Nikoosokhan; L. Brochard; M. Vandamme; P. Dangla; R. Pellenq et al. : CO2 Storage in Coal Seams: Coupling Surface Adsorption and Strain. 2012. p. 115--132.
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic Fracture initiation in quasi-brittle material. 2012. Hydraulic Fracturing Summit XII, Country Club, Johannesburg, South Africa, May, 2012.
J. Granda; A. Arnaud; B. Pays; B. Lecampion : Case Studies for Monitoring of CO2 Storage Sites, based on Ground Deformation Monitoring with Radar Satellites. 2012. Third EAGE CO2 Geological Storage Workshop, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 26--27 March, 2012.
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic Fracture Initiation From an Open-hole: Wellbore Size, Pressurization Rate And Fluid-solid Coupling Effects. 2012. 46th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 24--27, 2012.
Reports
B. Lecampion : Size Effects associated with Tensile Fracture Initiation from a Wellbore: Comparison between Brittle Criteria and Cohesive Zone Models. 2012.
Talks
B. Lecampion : Hydraulic Fracture Modeling and Design ; EAP Event Science and Engineering of Gas Shales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 20, 2012.
Recherche
Hydraulic fracturing
- Initiation of hydraulic fracture (size-effects, fluid effects etc.)- Initiation and simultaneous propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures
- Validation and codes benchmarking
Suspension flow
- Flow of dense suspensions in the dense regime in confined geometries (pipe, fractures)- Sedimentation in confined geometries
Inverse Problems in geomechanics
- Reconstruction of 3D in-situ stress field from quantitative and qualitative data- Use of InSAR data for reservoir monitoring
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
- Civil Engineering,
Programmes doctoraux
- Doctoral Program in Mechanics
- Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cours
Ouvrages géotechniques
Les étudiants connaissent les techniques de calculs et de réalisation des fondation d'ouvrages et de soutènement des en terrain meuble.
Ils savent
déterminer les facteurs influençant un projet géotechnique et dimensionner les ouvrages afin de satisfair... 
Computational geomechanics
Le but de ce cours est d'introduire les méthodes numériques modernes pour la résolution des problèmes géomécaniques (couplage - non-linéarité) et leur applications en ingénierie
Reservoir geo-mechanics engineering