Link between rocks, hydraulic fracturing, economics, environment, and the global gas portfolio

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1044-1068

  Aguilera, Roberto F ^a   Ripple, Ronald D ^a   Aguilera, Roberto ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; FOSSIL FUELS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; METHANE; NATURAL GAS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SHALE; SHALE GAS; TIGHT GAS;

CBM RESERVOIRS; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS; UNCONVENTIONAL GAS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS; VARIABLE SHAPE;

GASES;

EID: 84875652042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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