Performance of horizontal wells with irregular geometry

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 613-625

  Azar Nejad, F ^a   Tortike, W S ^a   Ali, S M Farouq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLES; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL PRESSURE;

ANISOTROPIC RESERVOIRS; CURVILINEAR GEOMETRY; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; INNER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; IRREGULAR GEOMETRIES; NO-FLOW BOUNDARIES; PRESSURE DERIVATIVES; WELLBORE;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

ANISOTROPIC RECTILINEAR RESERVOIRS; CURVILINEAR WELLBORES; ISOTROPIC RECTILINEAR RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0029770179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/36550-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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