Increasing oil recovery by preventing early water and gas breakthrough in a West Brae horizontal well: A case history

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 567-578

  McIntyre, A ^a   Adam, R ^b   Augustine, J ^c   Laidlaw, D ^d  

^a Marathon Oil UK Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Amerada Hess Denmark ^*  (Denmark)

^c SPE ^*

^d BAKER OIL TOOLS

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS BREAKTHROUGH; HIGH PERMEABILITY REGIONS; OIL RECOVERY;

HORIZONTAL WELLS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 33745714156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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3. Augustine, J.: "An Investigation of the Economic Benefit of Inflow Control Devices on Horizontal Well Completions Using a Reservoir-Wellbore Coupled Model", SPE 78293, October 2002.
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