A sensitivity study of potential CO2 injection for enhanced gas recovery in Barnett Shale reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE USA Unconventional Resources Conference 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 610-625

  Yu, Wei ^a   Al Shalabi, Emad W ^a   Sepehrnoori, Kamy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; GASES; HORIZONTAL DRILLING; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROCESS CONTROL; PROVEN RESERVES; RECOVERY; RESOURCE VALUATION; SHALE GAS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING PARAMETERS; ENHANCED GAS RECOVERIES; FRACTURE CONDUCTIVITIES; GAS PRODUCTION PROCESS; NUMERICAL RESERVOIR SIMULATIONS; RESERVOIR PERMEABILITY; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; TOTAL ORGANIC CONTENTS;

INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

EID: 84905749862     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/169012-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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