Automatic estimation of fracture properties in multi-stage fractured shale gas horizontal wells for reservoir modeling

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western Regional Meeting 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 754-772

  Ghods, Parham ^a   Zhang, Dongxiao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM HOLE PRESSURE; BRITTLENESS; ENGINEERS; FRACTURE; GASES; GASOLINE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INFILL DRILLING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; PETROLEUM REFINING; POROSITY; PRODUCTIVITY; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; SEISMOLOGY; SHALE GAS; TIGHT GAS;

AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; AUTOMATIC HISTORY MATCHING; ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FRACTURE NETWORK MAPPING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TREATMENTS; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERROR ESTIMATIONS; TRACER CONCENTRATION;

HORIZONTAL DRILLING;

EID: 84861598858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/153913-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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