Experimental evaluation of guar-fracture-fluid filter-cake behavior

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 381-387

  Xu, Ben ^a   Hill, A D ^a   Zhu, Ding ^a   Wang, Lei ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Petroleum University of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURING FLUIDS; POLYMERS;

EFFECTIVE FRACTURE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; GEL CONCENTRATION; HERSCHEL-BULKLEY FLUIDS; LASER PROFILOMETERS; PERMEABILITY IMPAIRMENTS; POLYMER FRACTURE;

YIELD STRESS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONDUCTIVITY; FRACTURE FLOW; POLYMER; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA;

EID: 84555189909     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/140686-PA     Document Type: Article

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