Proppant placement using reverse-hybrid fracs

SPE Proceedings - Gas Technology Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 109-119

  Liu, Y ^a   Gadde, P B ^a   Sharma, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PERMEABILITY; GELS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VISCOSITY;

FRACTURE TREATMENT; PROPPANT; REVERSE HYBRID FRACS (RHF); SLICK WATER;

FRACTURING (OIL WELLS);

EID: 33745711433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/99580-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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