Decline-curve analysis of fractured reservoirs with fractal geometry

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 606-619

  Camacho Velázquez, Rodolfo ^a   Fuentes Cruz, Gorgonio ^b   Vásquez Cruz, Mario ^c  

^a PEMEX   (Mexico)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Pemex E and P IPN

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; DIFFUSION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; WELL LOGGING; WELL TESTING;

APPROXIMATE ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; DECLINE-CURVE ANALYSIS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SOLUTION; FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES; INNER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

FRACTURE;

BOREHOLE; DUAL POROSITY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; WELL LOGGING; WELL TESTING;

EID: 48749098022     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/104009-pa     Document Type: Article

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