Unstable displacement: A missing factor in fracturing fluid recovery

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2012, CURC 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 719-731

  Parmar, Jaskaran S ^a   Dehghanpour, Hassan ^a   Kuru, Ergun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURING FLUIDS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; PROPPANTS; RESOURCE VALUATION;

DRAINAGE EXPERIMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS; FORMATION DAMAGE; FRACTURING FLUID RECOVERY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INJECTION PRESSURES; TIGH TRESERVOIRS; WETTING PROPERTY;

RECOVERY;

EID: 84875648139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/162649-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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