Streamline-based production data integration in naturally fractured reservoirs

SPE Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 426-439

  Al Harbi, Mishal ^a   Cheng, Hao ^b   He, Zhong ^c   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^d  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c El Paso Production   (United States)

^d Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK (DFN); FLUID TRANSPORT; STREAMLINES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 27544486180     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/89914-PA     Document Type: Article

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