Tharmal technique for controlling hydraulic fractures

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Wu, Ruiting ^a,b   Germanovich, Leonid N ^a,c   Van Dyke, Peter E ^a   Lowell, Robert P ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; HEATING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; LABORATORY METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 65349137578     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003815     Document Type: Article

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