Real-time estimation of fracture volume and hydraulic fracturing treatment efficiency

Gulf Rocks 2004 - 6th North America Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Lecampion, Brice ^a   Jeffrey, Rob ^a   Detournay, Emmanuel ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FRACTURE DIMENSIONS; FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TREATMENTS; METHOD OF ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME ESTIMATION; TILT DATA;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84928171574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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