Numerical simulation of mud-filtrate invasion in deviated wells

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-154

  Wu, Jianghui ^a   Torres Verdín, Carlos ^a   Sepehrnoori, Kamy ^a   Delshad, Mojdeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLES; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MUD-FILTRATE INVASION; PETROPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

WELLS;

FOULING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MUD; SPATIAL VARIATION; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

FOULING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MUD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 2342565808     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87919-PA     Document Type: Article

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