High-accuracy wet-gas multiphase well testing and production metering

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 4591-4599

  Atkinson, D I ^a   Reksten, O ^b   Smith, G ^c   Moe, H ^d  

^a SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b 3 Phase Measurements AS   (Norway)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^d Framo Engineering AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLOWMETERS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; VOLUME FRACTION;

FLOW LOOPS; OIL PRODUCTION; WATER-CUT PREDICTIONS; WET-GAS FLOWMETERS;

WELL TESTING;

EID: 22044453501     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/90992-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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