Investigation of stress-dependent fracture permeability in naturally fractured reservoirs using a fully coupled poroelastic displacement discontinuity model

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 2996-3003

  Tao, Q ^b   Ehlig Economides, C A ^b   Ghassemi, A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC; BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; CRITICAL STRESS; DISPLACEMENT DISCONTINUITY; DISPLACEMENT DISCONTINUITY METHOD; EFFECTIVE STRESS; EXTERNAL STRESS; FIELD DATA; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; FULLY-COUPLED; GAS RECOVERY; ISOTROPIC STRESS; KEY PARAMETERS; LONGER TIME FRAMES; MATRIX; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROELASTIC; PRESSURE BUILD UP; PRESSURE DEPLETION; PRESSURE TRANSIENT; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION; ROCK DISCONTINUITY; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SHALE GAS; STRESS-DEPENDENT;

ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

FRACTURE;

EID: 78349296424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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