Use of drill cuttings for improved design of hydraulic fracturing jobs in horizontal wells

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Americas Unconventional Resources Conference 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 465-485

  Ortega, Camilo ^a   Aguilera, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DESIGN; ELASTIC MODULI; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GASOLINE; HORIZONTAL DRILLING; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; INFILL DRILLING; OIL WELL DRILLING; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; POROSITY; RESOURCE VALUATION; ROCK DRILLS; ROCK MECHANICS; TEXTURES; WELL LOGGING;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; FRACTURING SIMULATION; GEOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICS PROPERTY; PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATIONS; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84866012840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/155746-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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