Monitoring hydraulic fracture growth: Laboratory experiments

Geophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 603-611

  Groenenboom, Jeroen ^a   Van Dam, Dirkjan B ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DISPERSION (WAVES); FITS AND TOLERANCES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC DIFFRACTION; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; DETERMINATION METHODS; FRACTURE CHARACTERIZATION; FRACTURE EXPERIMENTS; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SHEAR WAVE TRANSDUCERS;

FRACTURE;

FRACTURE PROPAGATION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 0034090405     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444756     Document Type: Article

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