Influence of reservoir stress path on deformation and permeability of weakly cemented sandstone reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 463-470

  Ruistuen, H ^a   Teufel, L W ^b   Rhett, D ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; DEFORMATION; PROCESS CONTROL; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; YIELD STRESS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLOGY; PORE PRESSURE; STRAIN RATE; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

CONFINING PRESSURES; INELASTIC DEFORMATION; INITIAL PERMEABILITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESERVOIR DEPLETION; SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS; RESERVOIR STRESS PATH; WEAKLY CEMENTED SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0029727292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/36535-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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