Lessons Learned from the First Openhole Horizontal Well Water Shutoff Job Using Two New Polymer Systems - A Case History from Wafra Ratawi Field, Kuwait

Proceedings of the Middle East Oil Show

Volumn 13, Issue , 2003, Pages 263-270

  Uddin, Shahab ^a   Dolan, Jimmy D ^b   Chona, Ricardo A ^b   Gazi, Naz H ^c   Monteiro, Ken ^c   Al Rubaiyea, Jamal A ^a   Al Sharqawi, Anwar ^a  

^a KUWAIT OIL COMPANY   (Kuwait)

^b Saudi Arabian Texaco Inc ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^c HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KUWAIT; OIL PRODUCTION; REPEAT FORMATION TESTS (RFT);

COST EFFECTIVENESS; CROSSLINKING; FILTRATION; GELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE DROP; WATER INJECTION;

OIL WELL COMPLETION;

EID: 1842505961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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