Investigation of fracture ballooning and breathing in naturally fractured reservoirs: Effect of fracture deformation law

Society of Petroleum Engineers Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 790-796

  Pordel Shahri, M ^a   Zeyghami, M ^a   Majidi, R ^b  

^a PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR FRACTURE; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DEVELOPED MODEL; DRILLING OPERATION; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY; LINEAR DEFORMATIONS; MODELING APPROACH; MUD LOSS; NATURAL FRACTURE; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; NEW MODEL; WELL CONTROL;

BOREHOLES; DEFORMATION; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; ENGINEERS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL DRILLING;

FRACTURE;

EID: 80755156451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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