Fracture face skin evolution during cleanup

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 367-380

  Gdanski, R ^a   Fulton, D ^a   Shen, C ^b  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRODUCTIVITY;

GAS FLOW; GAS FRACTURING TREATMENTS; TREATMENT CLEANUP;

NATURAL GAS WELLS;

EID: 33750999087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/101083-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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