Development of a multi-continuum multi-component model for enhanced gas recovery and CO2 storage in fractured shale gas reservoirs

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1198-1214

  Jiang, Jiamin ^a   Shao, Yuanyuan ^b   Younis, Rami M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b Southwest Petroleum University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; ENERGY RESOURCES; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; ISOTHERMS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; METHANE; NATURAL GAS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHALE GAS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ADSORPTION/DESORPTION; AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATIONS; ENHANCED GAS RECOVERIES; FRACTURING TREATMENTS; GENERIC REPRESENTATION; HIERARCHICAL APPROACH; MULTI-COMPONENT MODELING; MULTI-FRACTURED HORIZONTAL WELLS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84905740319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/169114-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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