Investigating fracture aperture distributions under various stress conditions using X-Ray CT scanner

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2004, CIPC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Muralidharan, V ^a   Chakravarthy, D ^a   Putra, E ^a   Schechter, D S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); FRACTURE; GASOLINE; SCANNING; X RAYS;

APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; CALIBRATED FRACTURES; CALIBRATION CURVES; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85087226671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2004-230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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