Long-term field development opportunity assessment using horizontal wells in a thin, carbonate reservoir of the greater Burgan Field, Kuwait

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-24

  Ambastha, Anil K ^a   Al Matar, Dawood ^b   Ma, Eddie ^b  

^a Chevron IndoAsia Business Unit   (Indonesia)

^b KUWAIT OIL COMPANY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; HORIZONTAL DRILLING; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INFILL DRILLING; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; WELL DRILLING;

CARBONATE RESERVOIR; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODEL;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

FRACTURE FLOW; HORIZONTAL DRILLING; MATRIX; MODELING; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESOURCE DEPLETION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST]; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 62749144456     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/123424-pa     Document Type: Article

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