Exceptional Proppant Flowback Control for the Most Extreme Well Environments: The Shape of Things to Come

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2949-2958

  Stephenson, Christopher ^a   Ward, Brian ^a   Taylor, David Milton ^b   Brannon, Harold ^a   Rickards, A ^a  

^a BJ Services

^b FracTech

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PRESSURE DROP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; WELL STIMULATION;

FLOWBACK CONTROL; PRESSURE GRADIENTS;

OIL WELLS;

EID: 1142278711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/77681-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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