The pressure derivative revisited - Improved formulations and applications

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 4277-4303

  Hosseinpour Zonoozi, N ^a   Ilk, D ^a   Blasingame, T A ^a  

^a Texas A and M U   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); POROSITY;

FINITE CONDUCTIVITY VERTICAL FRACTURE; PRESSURE-DERIVATIVE FUNCTION; RESERVOIR BOUNDARIES;

PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33750983627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/103204-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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