Oil production from fractured reservoirs by water displacement

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Fall Meeting of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, FM 1974

Volumn , Issue , 1974, Pages

  Kleppe, Jon ^a   Morse, Richard A ^a  

^a Texas ASM U ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERS; GASOLINE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

FRACTURED OIL RESERVOIRS; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; FRACTURED SYSTEMS; HIGH PRODUCTION RATE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; VERTICAL FRACTURE; WATER DISPLACEMENT;

FRACTURE;

EID: 78650618020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/5084-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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