Acoustic emission monitoring of hydraulic fracturing laboratory experiment with supercritical and liquid CO2

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Ishida, Tsuyoshi ^a   Aoyagi, Kazuhei ^a   Niwa, Tomoya ^a   Chen, Youqing ^a   Murata, Sumihiko ^a   Chen, Qu ^b   Nakayama, Yoshiki ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b 3D Geoscience Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LIQUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; VISCOSITY;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION MONITORING; BREAKDOWN PRESSURE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FRACTURE BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW VISCOSITY FLUIDS; SUPERCRITICAL;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION TESTING;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRACK; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROCARBON TECHNOLOGY; LABORATORY METHOD; LOW TEMPERATURE; MONITORING; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84865708437     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052788     Document Type: Article

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