Modeling variation of stress and permeability in naturally fractured reservoirs using displacement discontinuity method

43rd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium and 4th U.S.-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tao, Q ^a   Ehlig Economides, C A ^a   Ghassemi, A ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MODELS; DISPLACEMENT DISCONTINUITY METHOD; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; KEY PARAMETERS; MECHANICAL MODEL; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; POROELASTIC; PRESSURE DEPLETION; PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION; ROCK DISCONTINUITY;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CAPILLARITY; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 70450216047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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