The Definitive Identification of Candidate Wells for Refracturing

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1385-1401

  Oberwinkler, Christian ^a   Economides, Michael J ^b  

^a Decision Team Software GmbH

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; VISUALIZATION;

DATA SET; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITY; REFRACTURING CANDIDATES;

WELL COMPLETION;

EID: 1142289406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/84211-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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