Effect of fracture compressibility on oil recovery from stress-sensitive naturally fractured reservoirs

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 49-59

  Aguilera, R ^a  

^a Servipetrol Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATERIALS BALANCE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE COMPRESSIBILITY; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS (NFR); OIL RECOVERY; STRESS-SENSITIVE PROPERTIES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33846331177     PISSN: 00219487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/06-12-01     Document Type: Article

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