A new approach to generating fracture conductivity

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 3754-3767

  Gillard, M ^a   Medvedev, O ^a   Pena A ^a   Medvedev, A ^a   Penacorada F ^b   D'Huteau, E ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b Repsol USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FLUIDS; CONDUCTIVE FLOW PATHS; EFFECTIVE FRACTURE; EXPECTED ULTIMATE RECOVERIES; EXPECTED VALUES; EXPERIMENTAL WORKS; FIELD STUDIES; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; FLOWTHROUGH; FRACTURE CLEANUP; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TREATMENTS; LIMITING FACTORS; LOWER PRESSURES; NEW APPROACHES; OFFSET WELLS; OPEN CHANNELS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POST TREATMENT; PROPPANT PACKS; PROPPANTS; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS; WELL PRODUCTION; WELLBORE;

FRACTURING FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL STIMULATION; WELL TESTING;

FRACTURE;

EID: 78651101424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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