Alternative interpretations of shale gas/oil rate behavior using a triple porosity model

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 3068-3081

  Tivayanonda, Vartit ^a   Apiwathanasorn, Sippakorn ^a   Ehlig Economides, Christine ^a   Wattenbarger, Robert A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OIL WELLS; POROSITY; SHALE GAS;

BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; CALCULATION PROCEDURE; CONSTANT PRESSURES; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; INTERPRETATION TOOLS; NATURAL FRACTURE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; POROSITY MODELS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84874082004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/159703-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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