Coupled geomechanics-fluid flow modeling in petroleum reservoirs: Coupled versus uncoupled response

4th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 137-146

  Yale, David P ^a   Lyons, Steven L ^a   Qin, Guan ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPRESSIBILITY; DEFORMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOMECHANICS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ROCK MECHANICS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; FLUID FLOW MODELING; GEOMECHANICAL MODEL; NEAR-WELLBORE STRESS; RESERVOIR DEFORMATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; RESERVOIR THICKNESS; TOTAL COMPRESSIBILITIES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 84905629051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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