Effect of dissolved solids on reuse of produced water and proppant handling in hydraulic fracturing jobs in tight sand gas reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 487-497

  Haghshenas, Ashkan ^a   Nasr El Din, Hisham A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURING FLUIDS; IONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMERS; PRODUCED WATER; PROPPANTS; RESOURCE VALUATION; TIGHT GAS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER TREATMENT;

CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUMS; HANDLING CHARACTERISTICS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SMALL-AMPLITUDE OSCILLATIONS; STEADY SHEAR VISCOSITY; STIMULATION TREATMENTS; TIGHT SAND GAS RESERVOIRS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESOURCES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 84904438145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/168614-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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