Improving production in the eagle ford shale with fracture modeling, increased conductivity and optimized stage and cluster spacing along the horizontal wellbore

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Tight Gas Completions Conference 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 310-332

  Bazan, Lucas W ^a   Larkin, Sam D ^b   Lattibeaudiere, Michael G ^c   Palisch, Terry T ^d  

^a Bazan Consulting Inc   (United States)

^b Larkin Consulting Inc   (United States)

^c Rosetta Resources Inc   (United States)

^d CARBO Ceramics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST-PRACTICES; COMPLEX GEOLOGY; DESIGN CONCEPT; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK MODELS; FINITE-CONDUCTIVITY; FIRST-ORDER; FLOW STREAMS; FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; FRACTURE DIAGNOSTICS; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; FRACTURE LENGTH; FRACTURE MODEL; FRACTURE MODELING; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; FRACTURE SPACING; FRACTURE STIMULATION; GAIN INSIGHT; GAS PRODUCTIONS; HISTORY MATCH; HOOP STRESS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE DESIGN; MODEL COMPLEXES; MULTI-STAGE; PRESSURE DEPENDENT LEAKOFF; PROCESS ZONE; PRODUCTION DATA; PROPPANT PACKS; STRESS-DEPENDENT; TREATMENT DESIGN; WELL PRODUCTION; WELLBORE; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DESIGN; GAS CONDENSATES; GEOMETRY; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELLS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; RESOURCE VALUATION; SHALE;

FRACTURE;

EID: 79952796325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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