Quantifying acid placement: The key to understanding damage removal in horizontal wells

SPE Reprint Series

Volumn , Issue 47, 1998, Pages 127-134

  Jones, A T ^a   Davies, D R ^b  

^a SPE ^*

^b Shell Research BV ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OIL WELL COMPLETION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WELL STIMULATION;

HORIZONTAL WELLBORES;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 0031702734     PISSN: 08910901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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