Shale permeability determined by simultaneous analysis of multiple pressure-pulse measurements obtained under different conditions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 509-530

  Civan, Faruk ^a   Rai, Chandra S ^a   Sondergeld, Carl H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; SHALE GAS;

APPARENT PERMEABILITIES; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; INTRINSIC PERMEABILITY; LABORATORY TESTING; NON-DARCY MODELS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; REFERENCE CONDITION; SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS;

SHALE;

EID: 80052406218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/144253-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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