Fracture ballooning in naturally fractured formations: Mechanism and controlling factors

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1416-1424

  Majidi, R ^a   Miska, S Z ^a   Yu, M ^a   Thompson, L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; DRILLING FLUIDS; ELASTICITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INFILL DRILLING; RADIAL FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR THINNING; YIELD STRESS;

CONSERVATION OF MASS; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS; FRACTURE CHARACTERISTICS; FRACTURED FORMATIONS; NATURALLY-FRACTURED FORMATIONS; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; TRANSIENT RADIAL FLOWS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 58849128356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/115526-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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