Fracturing design using perfect support fluids for selected fracture proppant concentrations in vertical fractures

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Fall Meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, FM 1975

Volumn , Issue , 1975, Pages

  Harrington, Larry ^a   Hannah, Robert R ^a  

^a Annual Meeting Technical Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERS; FORECASTING; GASOLINE; PROPPANTS; SCHEDULING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE SOLUTION; FRACTURING DESIGN; HIGH STRENGTH; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; PROPPANT CONCENTRATIONS; PROPPANT TRANSPORTS; TRANSPORTING ABILITIES; VERTICAL FRACTURE;

FRACTURING FLUIDS;

EID: 77953122184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/5642-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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