Incorporating geomechanical and dynamic hydraulic fracture property changes into rate-transient analysis: Example from the Haynesville shale

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 467-484

  Clarkson, C R ^a   Qanbari, F ^a   Nobakht, M ^a   Heffner, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Goodrich Petroleum   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; FRACTURE; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; GEOMECHANICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE VALUATION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SHALE GAS;

BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; CONDUCTIVITY CHANGES; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; FRACTURE HALF-LENGTH; PERMEABILITY CHANGE; PRODUCTION FORECASTS; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875686116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/162526-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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