Gravel Pack Designs of Highly-Deviated Wells with an Alternative Flow-Path Concept

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Formation Damage Control

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 409-424

  Sanders, M W ^a   Klein, H H ^b   Nguyen, P D ^a   Lord, D L ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^b TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVEL; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUMPS; SLURRIES; VISCOSITY; WAVEFRONTS;

FLOW-PATH CONCEPT; HIGHLY-DEVIATED WELLS;

OIL WELLS;

EID: 1842559277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/73743-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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