An unconventional rate decline approach for tight and fracture-dominated gas wells

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources and International Petroleum Conference 2010

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2052-2066

  Duong, A N ^a  

^a ConocoPhillips ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; GASES; GASOLINE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL GAS WELLS; OIL WELLS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SHALE GAS;

BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION; DATA APPROXIMATION; EXPECTED ULTIMATE RECOVERIES; FRACTURE STIMULATION; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; PRODUCTION FORECASTS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 79952911042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/137748-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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