Laboratory imaging of stimulation fluid displacement from hydraulic fractures

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 793-804

  Tidwell, Vincent ^a   Parker, Mark ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUIDS; VISCOSITY; FRACTURING FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC FLUIDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

DISPLACEMENT PROCESS; FLUID DISPLACEMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINEAR CONDUCTIVITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY FUNCTIONS; STIMULATION FLUID; TRANSMISSION IMAGING; VISCOUS FINGERING; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION IMAGING; LINEAR CONDUCTIVITY CELL; STIMULATION FLUID DISPLACEMENT;

FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

EID: 0029766648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/36491-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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