Static/dynamic settling of proppant in non-Newtonian hydraulic fracturing fluids

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Mid-Continent Operations Symposium 1999, MCOS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Asadi, Mahmoud ^a,c   Shah, Subhash N ^a   Lord, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^c Stim Lab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELS; MESH GENERATION; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROPPANTS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SLURRIES;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; CROSS-LINKED GELS; DYNAMIC CONDITION; FLUID INJECTIONS; HYDROXYPROPYL GUARS; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; STATIC AND DYNAMIC CONDITIONS; STATIC CONDITIONS;

FRACTURING FLUIDS;

EID: 85086687780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/52217-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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