Poroelastic model for production- and injection-induced stresses in reservoirs with elastic properties different from the surrounding rock

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 353-361

  Soltanzadeh, Hamidreza ^a   Hawkes, Christopher D ^a   Sharma, Jitendra S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Injection; Poroelasticity; Production management; Reservoirs; Rocks; Stress analysis

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO; ROCKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ESHELBY'S INHOMOGENEITY THEORY; POROELASTICITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

FLUID INJECTION; MODELING; POISSON RATIO; POROELASTICITY; RESERVOIR; ROCK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR MODULUS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34648847321     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2007)7:5(353)     Document Type: Article

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