Effective Permeability Estimation for Modeling Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Proceedings of the Middle East Oil Show

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 341-348

  Nakashima, T ^a   Arihara, N ^a   Sutopo, ^a   Sato, K ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); INTEGRATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; ROCK MECHANICS; TENSORS; VECTORS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FRACTURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 1642480222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/68124-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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