Analysis of production decline characteristics of a multistage hydraulically fractured horizontal well in a naturally fractured reservoir

SPE Eastern Regional Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 46-63

  Ketineni, Sarath Pavan ^a   Ertekin, Turgay ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; ENGINEERS; GASOLINE; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL PACKAGE; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; ELLIPTICAL COORDINATES; FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE (GUI); INTERPOROSITY FLOW COEFFICIENT; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; STIMULATED RESERVOIR VOLUMES;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84873846812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/161016-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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