A new method for history matching and forecasting shale gas reservoir production performance with a dual porosity model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 670-683

  Samandarli, Orkhan ^a   Al Ahmadi, Hasan ^a   Wattenbarger, Robert A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; DUAL POROSITY; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; FIELD DATA; FLOW REGIMES; FRACTURE HALF-LENGTH; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; GAS PROPERTIES; HISTORY MATCH; HISTORY MATCHING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; LINEAR FLOWS; MAIN PARAMETERS; MATRIX; MATRIX BLOCKS; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; SECONDARY POROSITY; SHALE GAS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT FLOW;

BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; DESORPTION; FORECASTING; FRACTURE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; SHALE; WELLS;

GASES;

EID: 80052399492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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