Detection of water or gas entries in horizontal wells from temperature profiles

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1019-1037

  Dawkrajai, P ^a   Lake, L W ^a   Yoshioka, K ^b   Zhu, D ^b   Hill, A D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Texas A and M U   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

IDENTIFIABLE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; INTELLIGENT WELL COMPLETIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 33745699991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/100050-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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