Predicting friction pressure losses in coiled tubing operations

World Oil

Volumn 218, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 141-146

  Sas Jaworsky II, Alex ^a,c,d,e,f   Reed, Troy D ^b,f,g,h  

^a SAS Industries   (United States)

^b Reed Analytics and Consultants   (United States)

^c SAS Industries Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^e Conoco Houston Prod Technol Group ^*  (United States)

^f SPE   (United States)

^g Conoco ^*

^h Chevron's Drilling Technology Center

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EXPLORATORY BOREHOLES; FRICTION; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; PIPING SYSTEMS; PRESSURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENT FLOW;

COILED TUBING TECHNOLOGY; FRICTION FACTOR; FRICTION PRESSURE LOSSES; SPOOLED TUBING; STRAIGHT TUBING; WALL ROUGHNESS; WELLBORE;

OIL WELL PUMPING;

EID: 0031235985     PISSN: 00438790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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