Practical aspects of reserve determinations for shale gas

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Americas Unconventional Gas Conference 2011, UGC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 717-750

  Strickland, R ^a   Purvis, D ^a   Blasingame, T ^b  

^a Strickland Group   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES; DOMESTIC RESOURCES; DOMESTIC SUPPLIES; ENGINEERING ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING EVALUATIONS; MICRO AND MACRO; NATURAL FRACTURE; POWER-LAW; PRACTICAL METHOD; PREDICTION TOOLS; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; RESERVOIR MODELING; SHALE GAS; TIGHT GAS;

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PROVEN RESERVES; SHALE; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

GASES;

EID: 80052392784     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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