New and improved methods for performing rate-transient analysis of shale gas reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1543-1561

  Nobakht, M ^a,b   Clarkson, C R ^a   Kaviani, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b FEKETE ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOLECULES; NANOPORES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PORE SIZE; PROVEN RESERVES; SHALE GAS; TIGHT GAS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING; FRACTURE HALF-LENGTH; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION; MULTI-FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS; RESERVES ESTIMATIONS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRA-LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

EID: 84857151257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/147869-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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