Formation Testing while Drilling, a New Era in Formation Testing

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 551-559

  Proett, Mark ^a   Walker, Mike ^a   Welshans, David ^a   Gray, Charlie ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMPRESSION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; OIL WELL DRILLING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WELL LOGGING; WELL TESTING;

DRILL STEM TESTING (DST); LOGGING WHILE DRILLING (LWD) TOOL; UP-LINK CAPABILITIES; WIRELINE FORMATION TEST (WFT);

OIL BEARING FORMATIONS;

EID: 1142265263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/84087-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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