Why We Should Stop Using Pseudopressures and Other Good Old Well Test Interpretation Tools After So Many Years of Good Service

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2433-2442

  Houzé, Olivier P ^a  

^a KAPPA ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURVE FITTING; DIFFUSION; GAS CONDENSATES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; PRESSURE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; PSEUDOPRESSURES;

WELL TESTING;

EID: 1142302986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/77619-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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