Hydraulic-fracture-height growth: Real data

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 8-19

  Fisher, Kevin ^a   Warpinski, Norm ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DATA VISUALIZATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

COMMUNICATION PATHWAYS; FRACTURE GROWTH; FRACTURE HEIGHT; FRACTURING TREATMENTS; GROUNDWATER SUPPLY; HEIGHT GROWTH; INTEREST GROUPS; MAPPING DATA;

FRACTURE;

FRACTURE MECHANICS; HEIGHT; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84860720079     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/145949-pa     Document Type: Conference Paper

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