Productivity and drainage area of fractured horizontal wells in tight gas reservoirs

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 902-911

  Medeiros Jr , Flavio ^a   Ozkan, Erdal ^b,c   Kazemi, Hossein ^b  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b Department of Petroleum Engineering ^*

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRODUCTIVITY; TIGHT GAS;

FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; NATURAL FRACTURE; OIL PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION CHARACTERISTICS; TIGHT FORMATION; TIGHT GAS FORMATION; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS; TRANSIENT FLOW;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

DRAINAGE; GAS WELL; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OIL PRODUCTION; TRANSIENT FLOW;

EID: 57349151500     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/108110-pa     Document Type: Article

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