Impact of successive squeezes on treatment lifetime and well productivity: Laboratory and field evidence

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 450-458

  Fleming, Niall ^a   Ramstad, Kari ^b   Nelson, Alex ^c   Graham, Gordon ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KAOLINITE; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT;

COREFLOOD; DOWNHOLES; HEIDRUN FIELD; LONG-TERM IMPACTS; SCALE MANAGEMENT; SQUEEZE TREATMENTS; UNIQUE SEQUENCE; WELL PRODUCTIVITY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIELD METHOD; KAOLINITE; LABORATORY METHOD; RESERVOIR FLOODING; UPSCALING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OSEBERG FIELD;

EID: 70349658387     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/113657-PA     Document Type: Article

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