In-situ stress state from inversion of fracturing data from oil wells

DC Rocks 2001 - 38th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1367-1374

  Djurhuus, J ^a   Aadnoy B S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FAROE ISLANDS   (Faroe Islands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL WELLS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; STRESSES;

ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; GENERAL THEORY; HYPERBOLIC EQUATIONS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE FRACTURING; NON-LINEAR SOLUTIONS; NUMBER OF DATUM; PARABOLIC EQUATIONS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 0037573898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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