Value of injection testing as an alternative to conventional well testing: Field experience in a sour-oil reservoir

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-121

  Beretta, Enzo ^a   Tiani, Alessandro ^a   Lo Presti, Gaetano ^a,b   Verga, Francesca ^c  

^a ENI S P A   (Italy)

^b SONATRACH   (Algeria)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OIL FIELDS; WELL PRESSURE;

BIPHASE SKIN; DRILLSTEM TESTS; INJECTION TESTING; SOUR-OIL RESERVOIR;

OIL WELL TESTING;

BRINES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL TESTING; WELL PRESSURE;

FLUID INJECTION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; OIL FIELD; OIL PRODUCTION; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR ROCK; WELL TESTING;

EID: 34247880204     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/100283-pa     Document Type: Article

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