Horizontal Openhole Gravel Packing with Reactive Shale Present - A Nigeria Case History

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1015-1025

  Dickerson, Rick C ^a   Ojo Aromokudu, O ^b   Bodunrin, Abiodun A ^b   Passant, Kip ^c   Roane, Tom ^c   Penno, Andrew ^c   Fitzpatrick, Harvey ^c  

^a Chevron Texaco

^b CHEVRON NIGERIA LIMITED   (Nigeria)

^c HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRILLING FLUIDS; GRAVEL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL WELL CASINGS; OIL WELL DRILLING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SHALE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CAPILLARY SUCTION TIME (CST); NIGERIA; OPENHOLE GRAVEL PACKING (OHGP);

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 1142277302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/84164-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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