Flow units: From conventional to tight gas to shale gas to tight oil to shale oil reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Western Regional / Pacific Section AAPG Joint Technical Conference 2013: Energy and the Environment Working Together for the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 565-595

  Aguilera, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLOW OF GASES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SHALE GAS; SHALE OIL; SPEED; TIGHT GAS; VISCOUS FLOW;

CORE DATUM; DELIVERY SPEED; FLOW UNIT; GAS RESERVOIR; NORTH AMERICAN; OIL RESERVOIRS; PETROLEUM SYSTEMS; PROCESS SPEED; SHALE GAS RESERVOIRS; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS;

GASES;

EID: 84881381447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/165360-MS     Document Type: Conference Paper

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