What is the Magic of Water in Producing Sand?

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2973-2985

  Vaziri, Hans ^a   Barree, Bob ^b   Xiao, Yuxing ^c   Palmer, Ian ^a   Kutas, Mike ^a  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b Barree and Associates   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELLS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROCK MECHANICS; SAND; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER CONSERVATION;

ELASTIC CONSTANT; PLASTIC COHESION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 1142302957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/77683-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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