Fracture impact of yield stress and fracture-face damage on production with a three-phase 2D model

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 336-345

  Barati, R ^a   Hutchins, R D ^a   Friedel, T ^a   Ayoub, J A ^a   Dessinges, M ^a   England, K W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURING FLUIDS; GAS INDUSTRY; GAS PERMEABILITY; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; TIGHT GAS; YIELD STRESS;

FORMATION DAMAGE; FRACTURE CLEANUP; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; FRACTURE FACE DAMAGES; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; LOW PERMEABILITY GAS RESERVOIRS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; TIGHT GAS FORMATION;

LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

FRACTURE PROPAGATION; GAS PRODUCTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PERMEABILITY; POLYMER; RESERVOIR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WELL;

EID: 67649772114     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/111457-PA     Document Type: Article

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