Modified power law exponential decline for tight gas

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2009, CIPC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mattar, L ^a   Moghadam, S ^a  

^a FEKETE ASSOCIATES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GASES; GASOLINE; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; TRANSITION FLOW;

BOUNDARY DOMINATED FLOW; EXPECTED ULTIMATE RECOVERIES; MODIFIED POWER LAWS; POWER LAW EQUATION; PRODUCTION DATA; PRODUCTION RATES; RESERVOIR MODELS; TIGHT GAS RESERVOIRS;

TIGHT GAS;

EID: 85086057203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2009-198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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