Fracture permeability created by perturbed tress fieldsaround active faults in a fractured basement reservoir

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 743-764

  Tamagawa, Tetsuya ^a,b   Pollard, David D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAPAN PETROLEUM EXPLORATION CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; HORIZONTAL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; STRESSES;

ELASTIC DISLOCATION MODELS; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; FRACTURE SURFACES; FRACTURED BASEMENT RESERVOIRS; GEOMECHANICAL MODEL; HORIZONTAL STRESS; HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION;

FRACTURE;

ACTIVE FAULT; DISLOCATION; FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL WELL; PERMEABILITY; STRESS FIELD; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; YUFUTSU BASIN;

EID: 46949089719     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/02050807013     Document Type: Article

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