Stress reorientation around horizontal wells

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3087-3097

  Singh, Vasudev ^a   Roussel, Nicolas P ^a   Sharma, Mukul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD STUDIES; IN-SITU; IN-SITU STRESS; INJECTION RATES; INJECTION WELLS; MAXIMUM STRESS; MULTIPLE FRACTURES; OPERATING CONDITIONS; POROELASTIC; PRODUCTION RATES; PRODUCTION WELLS; RESERVOIR PRESSURES; SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS; STRESS REORIENTATIONS; SWEEP EFFICIENCIES; SYSTEMATIC STUDIES; TIME WINDOWS; WATER BREAKTHROUGHS; WATER FLOODING; WATER FLOODS; WELL PATTERNS;

FRACTURE; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOLAR RADIATION; WATER INJECTION; WELL FLOODING; WELL STIMULATION;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 58849102269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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