Flowback volumetric and chemical analysis for evaluating load recovery and its impact on early-time production

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2013 - Unconventional Becoming Conventional: Lessons Learned and New Innovations

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 533-548

  Ghanbari, Ebrahim ^a   Abbasi, Majid Ali ^a   Dehghanpour, Hassan ^a   Bearinger, Doug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CNOOC LTD   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; EFFICIENCY; FRACTURE; HORIZONTAL WELLS; RESOURCE VALUATION; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE PATTERN; IMBIBITION PROCESS; LONG TERM PRODUCTION; MULTI-FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; NATURAL FRACTURE; SALT CONCENTRATION; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

RECOVERY;

EID: 84897488569     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/167165-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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