Productivity changes in reservoirs with stress-dependent permeability

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 308-315

  Raghavan, Rajagopal ^a   Chin, Lee Y ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DRAINAGE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

PRODUCTIVITY CHANGES; WELLBORE PRESSURE;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; PRODUCTIVITY MODELING;

EID: 4444316372     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/88870-PA     Document Type: Article

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