Economic impact of reservoir properties, horizontal well length and orientation on production from shale formations: Application to new albany shale

SPE Eastern Regional Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 312-324

  Kalantari Dahaghi, A ^a   Mohaghegh, S D ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SIMULATORS; EASE OF USE; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; FRACTURE PARAMETER; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS WELL; HISTORY MATCHING; KENTUCKY; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; MATRIX POROSITY; NATURAL FRACTURE; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; NET PRESENT VALUE; NUMERICAL MODELS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERISTIC; RESERVOIR PRESSURES; RESERVOIR PROPERTY; SHALE FORMATION; SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DENSITY OF GASES; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; GAS PIPELINES; GAS PRODUCERS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHALE;

WELL STIMULATION;

EID: 77953645806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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