Flow regime analysis of multi-stage hydraulically-fractured horizontal wells with reciprocal rate derivative function: Bakken case study

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1565-1574

  Luo, Shanqiang ^a   Neal, Lane ^a   Arulampalam, Pathman ^a   Ciosek, Jessica McDonough ^a  

^a Hess Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; FRACTURE; GASOLINE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; OIL WELL LOGGING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE VALUATION; WELL COMPLETION; WELL STIMULATION;

COMPLETION TECHNOLOGY; CONSTANT BOTTOM-HOLE PRESSURES; DERIVATIVE FUNCTIONS; FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION; RESERVOIR PERMEABILITY; TIGHT OIL AND GAS RESERVOIRS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 79952916023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/137514-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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