Horizontal wellbore stability and sand production in weakly consolidated sandstones

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 35-48

  Kooijman, A P ^a   Hoek, P J Vanden ^a   Kenter, C J ^a   Zheng, Z ^b   Khodaverdian, M ^b  

^a Shell International Exploration and Production BV   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; GRAVITATION; HORIZONTAL WELLS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELLS; PRODUCTIVITY; SANDSTONE; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; OIL WELL COMPLETION; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SAND CONSOLIDATION; STABILITY; STRESSES;

CAPILLARY COHESION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG TERM STABILITY; NEAR-WELLBORE REGION; SANDSTONE FORMATIONS; WEAKLY CONSOLIDATED SANDSTONE; WELLBORE COMPLETION; WELLBORE STABILITY;

SAND; SANDSTONE;

CONSOLIDATED SANDSTONES; DRAWDOWN; ELASTO-PLASTIC CALCULATIONS; HORIZONTAL WELLBORE STABILITY; SAND PRODUCTION;

EID: 0029749502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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