Reservoir engineering for unconventional gas reservoirs: What do we have to consider?

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 936-980

  Clarkson, C R ^a   Jensen, J L ^a   Blasingame, T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TEXAS AANDM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALBED METHANE RESERVOIR; CORE-SCALE HETEROGENEITIES; CRITICAL ISSUES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA SOURCE; DATA TREND; EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY; FIELD DEVELOPMENT; GAS RESERVOIR; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; LOG ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; RESERVOIR ENGINEERS; RESERVOIR FLUID; RESERVOIR MODELING; SCALE-UP; SHALE GAS; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; STANDARDIZED PROCEDURE; TIGHT GAS;

COAL DEPOSITS; DATA REDUCTION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING; ENGINEERS; GASES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; METHANE; NEUTRON LOGGING; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PORE SIZE; WELL STIMULATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 80052417832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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