A comprehensive skin-factor model of horizontal-well completion performance

SPE Production and Facilities

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-220

  Furui, Kenji ^a   Zhu, Ding ^b   Hill, A D ^b  

^a BAKER OIL TOOLS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HORIZONTAL WELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; WELL PERFORATION;

FORMATION DAMAGE; OPTIMAL COMPLETION; SKIN FACTOR;

OIL WELL COMPLETION;

HORIZONTAL DRILLING; WELL COMPLETION;

EID: 24644467204     PISSN: 1064668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/84401-pa     Document Type: Article

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