New and improved methods for performing rate-transient analysis of shale gas reservoirs

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 335-350

  Nobakht, Morteza ^a   Clarkson, C R ^a   Kaviani, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GAS INDUSTRY; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOLECULES; NANOPORES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PORE SIZE; PROVEN RESERVES; SHALE GAS; TIGHT GAS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING; FRACTURE HALF-LENGTH; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE STIMULATION; MULTI-FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; PRODUCTION DATA ANALYSIS; RESERVES ESTIMATIONS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRA-LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; OPTIMIZATION; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SHALE; SURFACE AREA;

EID: 84862644086     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/147869-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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