Analysis of oil/water-flow tests in horizontal, hilly terrain, and vertical pipes

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-133

  Abduvayt, Polat ^a,d   Manabe, Ryo ^b   Watanabe, Tomoko ^c   Arihara, Norio ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Index Corp   (Japan)

^c GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d Kachidoki Sun Square   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERNS; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; TEMPERATURE; TWO PHASE FLOW; VIDEO RECORDING;

FLOW RATE; INCLINATION ANGLE; OIL FLOW; SLIPPAGE; WATER HOLDUP;

FLOW OF WATER;

FLOW OF WATER; FLOW PATTERNS; PIPE FLOW; PRESSURE DROP; TEMPERATURE; TWO PHASE FLOW; VIDEO RECORDING;

FLOW PATTERN; PIPELINE; PRESSURE DROP; WATER FLOW;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33745802429     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/90096-pa     Document Type: Article

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