Improved methodologies for more accurate shale gas assessments

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Americas Unconventional Resources Conference 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 300-316

  Boulis, Anastasios ^a   Jayakumar, Ramkumar ^a   Lalehrokh, Farshad ^a   Lawal, Hamed ^a  

^a Weatherford International Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SHALE GAS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL METHOD; FLOW BEHAVIORS; GLOBAL SOURCES; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; NATURAL-GAS PRODUCTION; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS; SHALE PLAYS;

GASES;

EID: 84866027848     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/154981-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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