The present research project begins with the study of the generalities of the Middle Magdalena

Valley Basin in order to be able to determine the main characteristics and properties of
unconventional reservoirs. At this stage, the project describes its geographical location, its
evolutionary history and its stratigraphy using the stratigraphic column to establish a geological
framework in which the study was focused. Following this, an unconventional shale reservoir was
defined. This was done based on the definition taken from the consulted bibliography. From this
definition, it begins to describe the geological, petrophysical and geochemical characteristics of
the La Luna Formation and of each of its members, making use of the results published by the ANH
and INGRAIN in their study of Geological Integration of Digitalization and Analysis of Nuclei taken
in the Infantas-1613 well.

Subsequently, the geomechanical study is carried out. In the first instance, it was defined what a
geomechanical model is and what the pillars that comprise it are. These are the stress states, the
rock resistance parameters, pore pressure and the rock mechanical properties. Following this
theoretical description, we proceed to the elaboration of the geomechanical model, with the
reception of the data supplied by the unconventional reservoirs division of the state company
ECOPETROL S.A.

At the end of the construction of the geomechanical model, the simulation of hydraulic fracturing
is carried out in two rock intervals within the study formation. Finally, with the results of this
simulation, it was possible to evaluate what was the quantitative impact that the geomechanical
parameters had on the generation and geometry of the modeled hydraulic fractures.