Analysis of the coalbed degas iflcation process at a seventeen well pattern in the Warrior Basin of Alabama

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Unconventional Gas Recovery Symposium, UGR 1980

Volumn , Issue , 1980, Pages 355-369

  Ancell, K L ^a   Lambert, S ^b   Johnson, F S ^a  

^a INTERCOMP ^*  (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL DEPOSITS; NATURAL GAS WELLS;

DELIVERABILITY; DEMONSTRATION PROJECT; INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; INTER-WELL INTERFERENCE; RESERVOIR DESCRIPTION; RESERVOIR PRESSURES; SIMULATION MODEL; WATER PRODUCTION;

GASES;

EID: 85058646441     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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