Fracture permeability of gas shale: Effects of roughness, fracture offset, proppant, and effective stress

Society of Petroleum Engineers - International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in China 2010, IOGCEC

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1805-1821

  Kassis, Sarah ^a   Sondergeld, Carl H ^b  

^a Subsurface Technology Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS PERMEABILITY; HORIZONTAL WELLS; NATURAL GAS WELL COMPLETION; PROPPANTS; SHALE GAS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ASPERITY HEIGHTS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; FRACTURED SURFACES; INITIAL PERMEABILITY; PERMEABILITY MODEL; PRESSURE DEPENDENCE;

FRACTURE;

EID: 78650604365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/131376-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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