Proppant transport in slick-water fracturing of shale-gas formations

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4322-4330

  Dayan, Adam ^b   Stracener, Shaun M ^b   Clark, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; FRACTURE; PROPPANTS; SHALE GAS;

COMPLEX FLOW FIELD; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; FRACTURE NETWORK; LABORATORY MODELS; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; NUMBER OF FACTORS; PROPPANT TRANSPORTS; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 77950824265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/125068-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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