Evaporative clean-up of water-blocks in gas wells

SPE Production and Operations Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 275-285

  Mahadevan, J ^a   Sharma, M M ^a   Yortsos, Y C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE ZONES; SKIN FACTORS; WATER-BLOCKS; WELLBORES;

EVAPORATION; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; ROCKS;

NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 27744518648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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