Fracture mapping in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 2713-2724

  Estrada, Erick ^a   Roberts, Neale ^b   Weijers, Leen ^a   Riebel, Tom ^a   Logan, Steven ^c  

^a SPE ^*  (United States)

^b Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

^c HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE GROWTH; FRACTURE HALF-LENGTH; FRACTURE MAPPING; FRACTURE STAGES; FRACTURE STIMULATION; HEIGHT GROWTH; INFILL DRILLING; INFILL WELLS; INJECTION RATES; INTERPRETATION OF DATA; NEW MEXICO; OBSERVATION WELLS; PILOT TESTS; STRESS ORIENTATIONS;

OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; SEISMOLOGY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 78349293816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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