A workflow for integrated barnett shale gas reservoir modeling and simulation

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1347-1358

  Du, C ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Melton, B ^a   Fullilove, D ^a   Suliman, B ^a   Gowelly, S ^a   Grant, D ^a   Le Calvez, J ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARNETT SHALE; BOREHOLE IMAGES; CONVENTIONAL LOGS; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; DUAL-POROSITY RESERVOIRS; ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC; FRACTURE MORPHOLOGY; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GEOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TREATMENTS; IN-FIELD; LITHOFACIES; LOG INTERPRETATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PETROPHYSICAL; PROPERTY EVALUATION; RESERVE CALCULATION; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR MODELS; RESERVOIR VOLUME; SEISMIC INTERPRETATION; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SHALE GAS; STRESS FIELD; STRESS REGIME; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY; WELL PLACEMENT; WELL POSITIONING;

CHARACTERIZATION; FRACTURE; GAS PIPELINES; GAS PRODUCERS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT; MINING ENGINEERING; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMOLOGY; SHALE; SIMULATORS; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELL LOGGING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 70449869745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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