Water as proppant

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 4805-4812

  Ehlig Economides, Christine A ^a   Economides, Michael J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GASES; HORIZONTAL WELLS; OIL WELLS; PROPPANTS; SHALE GAS;

FLUID EFFICIENCY; FLUID INJECTIONS; FRACTURE COMPLEXITY; FRACTURE FLUIDS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; LOW PERMEABILITY; NATURAL FRACTURE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84856728019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/147603-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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