Determination of in-situ two-phase flow properties through downhole fluid movement monitoring

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3002-3024

  Kuchuk, Fikri ^a   Zhan, Lang ^a   Ma, S Mark ^b   Al Shahri, Ali M ^b   Ramakrishnan, T S ^a   Mundas, Bilgin ^a   Zeybek, Murat ^a   De Loubens, Romain ^a   Chugunov, Nikita ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CARBONATE RESERVOIRS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CORE MEASUREMENTS; DATA SETS; DOWNHOLE; EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FLUID MOVEMENTS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS; INJECTED FLUIDS; INJECTED WATERS; INJECTION PROFILES; MULTI SOURCES; MULTI-PHASE FLOW PROPERTIES; MULTI-PHYSICS; NOVEL METHODS; OIL DISPLACEMENTS; OPENHOLE; POROUS MEDIAS; PRESSURE TRANSIENTS; PRIMARY OBJECTIVES; PRODUCTION LOGGING TOOLS; PRODUCTION PROFILES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; RESISTIVITY ARRAYS; SAUDI ARABIA; TWO - PHASE FLOWS; TWO STAGES; TWO-PHASE TRANSPORTS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WELL LOCATIONS;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HARVESTING; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LIQUIDS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); MONITORING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOLAR RADIATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TWO PHASE FLOW; WELL LOGGING;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 58849098137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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