Modeling water flow in hydraulically-fractured shale wells

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 4194-4216

  Jurus, Wojciech J ^a   Whitson, Curtis Hays ^a   Golan, Michael ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW OF WATER; FRACTURE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PORE SIZE; RECOVERY; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SHALE;

BLACK-OIL RESERVOIRS; CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; DISTRIBUTION OF WATER; FRACTURING OPERATIONS; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; PERMEABILITY MODEL; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES;

INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

EID: 84894173563     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/166439-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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