Modeling flowback behavior or flowback equals "slowback"

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Shale Gas Production Conference 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 60-69

  Crafton, James W ^a  

^a Performance Sciences Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; OIL WELLS; SHALE GAS; TIGHT GAS;

GAS WELL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; NATURAL FRACTURE; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS; WELL PRODUCTION;

RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

EID: 70349458101     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/119894-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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