Equivalent Fracture Network Permeability of Multilayer-Complex Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 339-362

  Jafari, Alireza ^a   Babadagli, Tayfun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fractal properties; Fracture density; Fracture networks; Image logs; Network permeability; Well test

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL PROPERTIES; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURE NETWORK; IMAGE LOGS; NETWORK PERMEABILITY; WELL TEST;

BRITTLENESS; FRACTALS; MULTILAYERS; NETWORK LAYERS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELL TESTING;

FRACTURE;

BOREHOLE LOGGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURE NETWORK; GEOSTATISTICS; PERMEABILITY; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; RESERVOIR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 83055188085     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9849-z     Document Type: Article

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