Reducing exploration and appraisal risk in low permeability reservoirs using microseismic fracture mapping - Part 2

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2011, CURC 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 25-48

  Cipolla, C ^a   Mack, M ^a   Maxwell, S ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE HISTORY; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ESSENTIAL COMPONENT; FIELD DEVELOPMENT; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; GAS SHALES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RECOVERY; LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING CURVES; LOW PERMEABILITY; MICROSEISMIC FRACTURE MAPPING; MICROSEISMIC MAPPING; PILOT PROGRAMS; REDUCING COSTS; STIMULATION DESIGN; STIMULATION TREATMENTS; TREATMENT DESIGN; UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBONS; WELL LOCATION; WELL PRODUCTIVITY;

DESIGN; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDROCARBONS; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESOURCE VALUATION; SEISMOLOGY; WELL COMPLETION; WELL STIMULATION;

LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

EID: 84860606145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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