Gulf of Mexico Horizontal Well Improves Attic-Oil Recovery in Active Waterdrive Reservoir

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 163-168

  Vo, D T ^a   Marsh, E L ^a   Sienkiewicz, L J ^a   Mueller, M D ^a   May, R S ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTIC OIL RECOVERY; PREWELL PLANNING; WATERDRIVE RESERVOIRS;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL COMPLETION; OIL WELL LOGGING;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 0031212339     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/35437-PA     Document Type: Article

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