Multi-stage hydraulically fractured shale gas rate transient analysis

North Africa Technical Conference and Exhibition 2010, NATC 2010 - Energy Management in a Challenging Economy

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 245-262

  Bello, Rasheed O ^a   Wattenbarger, Robert A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINEAR FLOW; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; FIELD DATA; FLOW REGIMES; FLOW REGIONS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MATRIX; MULTI-STAGE; PRODUCTION DATA; SHALE GAS; TRANSIENT FLOW;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FLOW OF WATER; FRACTURE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SHALE; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

NATURAL GAS WELL COMPLETION;

EID: 77954119623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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