Some history cases of long-term linear flow in tight gas wells

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2001, CIPC 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Arevalo Villagran J A ^a   Wattenbarger, R A ^a   Samaniego Verduzco, F ^b   Pham, T T ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEMEX   (Mexico)

^c El Paso Natural Gas Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GASOLINE; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PARALLEL FLOW;

FIELD DATA; FRACTURE TREATMENT; LINEAR FLOWS; PARALLEL FRACTURES; PRODUCTION ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR PROPERTY; SHORT TERM;

TIGHT GAS;

EID: 85063783555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2001-015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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