Volume fracturing technology of unconventional reservoirs: Connotation, optimization design and implementation

Shiyou Kantan Yu Kaifa/Petroleum Exploration and Development

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 352-358

  Wu, Qi ^a,b   Xu, Yun ^b,c   Wang, Xiaoquan ^a   Wang, Tengfei ^b,c   Zhang, Shouliang ^a,b  

^a PetroChina Exploration and Production Company   (China)

^b The Key Laboratory of Reservoir Stimulation   (China)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT   (China)

Author keywords

"integrated" volume fracturing; Connotation; Development direction; Multi stage and multi cluster; Optimization design; Unconventional reservoirs; Volume fracturing technology

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROSPECT; CONNOTATION; DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIONS; FRACTURE INITIATION; FRACTURE NETWORK; KEY TECHNIQUES; MULTI-STAGE; OPTIMIZATION DESIGN; PROPPANTS; SHEAR FAILURE; SMALL CLUSTERS; THEORY MODEL; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

BRITTLENESS; DESIGN; FRACTURE MECHANICS; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PLASTICITY; SEEPAGE; TECHNOLOGY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84863593992     PISSN: 10000747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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