An experimental investigation of spontaneous imbibition in gas shales

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 4934-4944

  Roychaudhuri, B ^a   Tsotsis, T ^a   Jessen, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN BASIN; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOWBACK; FLUID LOSS; GAS SHALES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; IMBIBITION PROCESS; INJECTED WATER; LINEAR RATE; MATRIX; MICRO-FRACTURE; MULTI-STAGE; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RECYCLED WATER; SAMPLE MATRIX; SINGLE WELL; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; SQUARE ROOTS; VERTICAL COLUMNS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENERGY RESOURCES; EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; FRACTURING FLUIDS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS;

SHALE;

EID: 84856745321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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