Understanding flowback as a transient 2-phase displacement process: An extension of the linear dual-porosity model

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 513-532

  Ezulike, D O ^a   Dehghanpour, H ^a   Hawkes, R V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Trican Well Service   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DROPS; FRACTURE; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POROSITY; RADIAL FLOW; RESOURCE VALUATION; TIGHT GAS;

FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION; HYDROCARBON RECOVERY; MULTI-FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; RESIDUAL WATER SATURATION; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 84897551559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/167164-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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