An Improved Model to Predict Reservoir Characteristics during Underbalanced Drilling

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1111-1121

  Biswas, D ^a   Suryanarayana, P V ^a   Frink, P J ^a   Rahman, S ^a  

^a Blade Energy Partners

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DRILLING FLUIDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OIL WELL DRILLING; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WELL TESTING;

FLOW BEHAVIORS; LIMITED FLOW ENTRY (LFE); WELLBORES;

OIL WELLS;

EID: 1142264477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/84176-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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