Pressure-transient performances of hydraulically fractured horizontal wells in locally and globally naturally fractured formations

International Petroleum Technology Conference 2007, IPTC 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1823-1831

  Medeiros, F ^a   Kurtoglu, B ^b   Ozkan, E ^b   Kazemi, H ^b  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASOLINE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; OIL WELLS; PRODUCTIVITY; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; FRACTURED FORMATIONS; FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; NATURALLY-FRACTURED FORMATIONS; PRESSURE DERIVATIVES; PRESSURE TRANSIENT;

FRACTURE;

EID: 70449645333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/iptc-11781-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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