Is there a "silver bullet technique" for stimulating California's monterey shale?

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North American Regional Meeting 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-258

  Shaari, Nabil E L ^a   Minner, W A ^b   LaFollette, R F ^a  

^a BAKER HUGHES   (United States)

^b StrataGen Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DIAGENETICS; DRILLING AND COMPLETION; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FIELD DEVELOPMENT; FILLING IN; GENERAL INTERVAL; HYDROCARBON SOURCE ROCKS; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; LOW MATRIX PERMEABILITY; LOW-MOBILITY; MC-DONALD; MIOCENE; MULTIPHASE LIQUID; MULTIPLE FRACTURE; NATURAL FRACTURE; OIL INDUSTRIES; RESERVOIR PROPERTY; ROCK PROPERTIES; SHALE FORMATION; SILICEOUS SHALES; STIMULATION TREATMENTS; STRESS STATE; VERTICAL WELLS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CARBONATE MINERALS; ENGINEERS; FRACTURE; HYDROCARBONS; LITHOLOGY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL WELL COMPLETION; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PLANNING; PROJECTILES; QUARTZ; SHALE; SHALE OIL; STRESSES; WELL STIMULATION;

OIL SHALE;

EID: 79961006072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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