Flow Behavior of Fracturing Slurries in Coiled Tubing

Proceedings of the SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing Roundtable Conf

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 73-86

  Shah, S N ^a   Zhou, Y ^a   Goel, Naval ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; EROSION; FLOW PATTERNS; FRICTION; GELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SLURRIES; TUBING; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WELL STIMULATION;

COILED TUBINGS (CT); DEAN NUMBER; FLOW RATES;

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

EID: 1642518379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/74811-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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