Optimizing low-permeability gas-field fracturing jobs

World Oil

Volumn 222, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 70-80

  Wolhart, Stephen L ^d   Berumen, Sergio ^d   Cippola, Craig L ^d   Barton, Colleen A ^a,b   Branagan, Paul T ^c  

^a GeoMechanics International   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Branagan and Associates Inc   (United States)

^d NONE

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EID: 0035339352     PISSN: 00438790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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