4.

4 Length, conductivity and equivalent skin effect

❖Prats (1961) also introduced the concept of dimensionless
effective wellbore radius in a hydraulically fractured well:
𝑟′𝑤
𝑟′𝑤𝐷 = (4.10)
𝑥𝑓

where: 𝑟′𝑤𝐷 : dimensionless effective wellbore

radius.
𝑟′𝑤 = 𝑟𝑤 𝑒 −𝑠𝑓 .
𝑥𝑓 : conductive length.

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