A general single-phase wellbore/reservoir coupling model for multilateral wells

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 327-335

  Ouyang, Liang Biao ^a,c,d   Aziz, Khalid ^b  

^a SPE

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^d SPE Editorial Review Committee

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EID: 0012644696     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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