Applying unified fracture design to natural gas wells

World Oil

Volumn 223, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 50-62

  Economides, Michael J ^a   Oligney, Ronald E ^a   Valkó, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

HIGH-PERMEABILITY FRACTURING (HPF);

NATURAL GAS WELLS;

EID: 0036794888     PISSN: 00438790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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