Estimating Drilling-Induced Formation Damage Using Reservoir Simulation to Screen Underbalanced Drilling Candidates

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Formation Damage Control

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 53-62

  Biswas, Deepankar ^a   Suryanarayana, P V ^a  

^a Blade Energy Partners

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLES; CORE ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HORIZONTAL WELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WELL DRILLING;

ISOTROPIC PERMEABILITY; OVERBALANCE DRILLING (OBD); UNDERBALANCED DRILLING (UBD); ZONAL TREATMENT;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 2342443758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/86465-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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