Surface Gravity Monitoring of the Gas Cap Water Injection Project - Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1565-1576

  Brady, Jerry L ^a   Ferguson, John F ^b   Seibert, John E ^c   Chen, Tianyou ^b   Hare, Jennifer L ^d   Aiken, Carlos V L ^b   Klopping, Fred J ^e   Brown, John M ^e  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c Seibert and Associates   (United States)

^d Zonge Engineering   (United States)

^e Micro g Solution

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WATER INJECTION;

GAS CAP WATERFLOOD PROJECTS (GCWI); SURFACE GRAVITY MONITORING;

WELL FLOODING;

EID: 1142278825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/77513-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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