Drainage against gravity: Factors impacting the load recovery in fractures

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE USA Unconventional Resources Conference 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 102-112

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREAL SWEEP EFFICIENCY; DISPLACEMENT DIRECTION; DRAINAGE EXPERIMENTS; DRAINAGE PATTERNS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INJECTION PRESSURES; MATERIAL BALANCE; MICROSCOPIC DISPLACEMENT;

EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; FRACTURING FLUIDS; GLASS; GRANULAR MATERIALS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGHT SOURCES; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RECOVERY; RESOURCE VALUATION; WETTING;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 84881113389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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