A review of the long-term performance of hydraulic fracture treatments in the muddy "j" sand, wattenberg field

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/DOE Low Permeability Gas Reservoirs Symposium, LPG 1985

Volumn , Issue , 1985, Pages

  Zahner, R L ^a   Crafton, J W ^b  

^a Questa Engineering   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GAS INDUSTRY; GAS PERMEABILITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

FRACTURE DESIGN; FRACTURE DIMENSIONS; FRACTURE TREATMENT; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; SEVERAL VARIABLES; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

EID: 85085853599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/13873-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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