Diagnosing fracture network pattern and flow regime aids production performance analysis in unconventional oil reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/EAGE European Unconventional Resources Conference and Exhibition 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 309-324

  Rasdi, Faisal ^a,b   Chu, Lifu ^a  

^a HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; FLOW SIMULATION; FRACTURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; RESOURCE VALUATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; ESTIMATED ULTIMATE RECOVERIES; HETEROGENEITY EFFECTS; NUMERICAL RESERVOIR SIMULATIONS; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION; STIMULATED RESERVOIR VOLUMES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 84861582772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/151623-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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