Making Sense of Water Injection Fractures in the Dan Field

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 556-563

  Ovens, J E V ^a   Larsen, F P ^a   Cowie, D R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE APPLICATION; OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; RECOVERY TECHNIQUE; WATER INJECTION;

OFFSHORE APPLICATION; OIL PRODUCTION; RECOVERY METHOD; WATER;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0032439159     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/52669-pa     Document Type: Article

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