Ceiba Completion Optimization: A Fast-Track Approach to Success

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 923-938

  Claiborne Jr , E B ^a   Malone, B P ^b   Marshall, J C ^b  

^a HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; FRACTURE; GRAVEL; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL COMPLETION; OIL WELL DRILLING; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SAND; WATER INJECTION;

NON-PRODUCTIVE TIME (NPT); RESERVOIR DRILL-IN FLUIDS (RDF); SKIN FACTOR;

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 1142278855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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