Simplified forecasting of tight/shale-gas production in linear flow

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 476-486

  Nobakht, Morteza ^a,b,c,d   Mattar, Louis ^b,c   Moghadam, Samane ^b,c   Anderson, David M ^b,c  

^a ENCANA CORPORATION   (Canada)

^b SPE ^*  (Canada)

^c FEKETE ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; FLOW REGIMES; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS WELL; LINEAR-FLOW; PRODUCTION DATA; PRODUCTION FORECASTING; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS; SIMPLIFIED METHOD; VERTICAL WELLS;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 84870168031     PISSN: 00219487     EISSN: 21564663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/133615-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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