The impact of gravity segregation on multiphase non-darcy flow in hydraulically fractured gas wells

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 4766-4779

  Dickins, Mark I ^a   McVay, Duane A ^a   Schubarth, Stephen K ^b  

^a Texas A and M Transportation Institute   (United States)

^b Schubarth Inc

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; NATURAL GAS WELLS;

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; EFFECTIVE FRACTURE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; GRAVITY SEGREGATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NON-DARCY FLOW EFFECTS; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODEL;

FRACTURE;

EID: 58849129848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/116748-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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