Calibrating Fracture Models with Direct Diagnostics: A Necessary but Humbling Experience

SPE - Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 668-678

  Lehman, Lyle V ^a   Weijers, Leen ^b   Mayerhofer, Michael ^b   Wright, Chris ^b   Fisher, Kevin ^b   Davis, Eric ^b   Fulton, Dwight ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^b PINNACLE TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE MAPPING; FRACTURE TREATMENTS;

FRACTURING (OIL WELLS);

EID: 1642480860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/77904-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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