A sensitivity analysis for effective parameters on 2D fracture-network permeability

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 455-469

  Jafari, A ^a   Babadagli, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLVENTS;

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; DISCRETE-FRACTURE NETWORK; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN APPROACHES; FRACTAL CHARACTERISTICS; FRACTURE NETWORK MAPPING; MULTIVARIABLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS;

FRACTURE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; PERMEABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 67651165105     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/113618-PA     Document Type: Article

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