Dual Porosity and Dual Permeability Modeling of Horizontal Well in Naturally Fractured Reservoir

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 213-235

  Nie, Ren Shi ^a   Meng, Ying Feng ^a   Jia, Yong Lu ^a   Zhang, Fu Xiang ^b   Yang, Xiang Tong ^b   Niu, Xin Nian ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TARIM OILFIELD COMPANY   (China)

Author keywords

Dual permeability; Horizontal well; Modeling; Naturally fractured reservoir; Type curves

Indexed keywords

DUAL POROSITY; DUAL-PERMEABILITY; DUAL-POROSITY RESERVOIRS; EIGEN FUNCTION; EIGEN-VALUE; EXTERNAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FRACTURE SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; MATRIX; MATRIX SYSTEMS; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; PERMEABILITY MODELING; RESEARCH RESULTS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; SEPARATION OF VARIABLES; SINGLE-PERMEABILITY MODELS; TRANSIENT FLOW BEHAVIOR; TYPE CURVES; WELLBORE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FLOW FIELDS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; WELL TESTING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DUAL POROSITY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL WELL; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84857232720     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9898-3     Document Type: Article

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