Proppant conductivity — What counts and why

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Mid-Continent Operations Symposium 1999, MCOS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Lehman, Lyle V ^a   Parker, Mark A ^a   Blauch, Matt E ^a   Haynes, Randy ^a   Blackmon, Alan ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MARKETING; TESTING;

COST EFFECTIVE; FINES MIGRATION; GEOCHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY DATUM; MARKETING CAMPAIGN; PRODUCTION LEVEL; TESTING METHOD;

PROPPANTS;

EID: 40449131635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/52219-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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