An early-time model for drawdown testing of a hydrate-capped gas reservoir

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 595-609

  Gerami, Shahab ^a,b   Pooladi Darvish, Mehran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL COMPANY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY RESOURCES; GAS INDUSTRY; GASES; HYDRATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; OFFSHORE GAS FIELDS; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL TESTING;

DEEP OCEAN SEDIMENTS; ENDOTHERMIC DECOMPOSITION; FINITE FOURIER COSINE TRANSFORM; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HYDRATE DECOMPOSITION; MATERIAL BALANCE EQUATION; PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE; RESERVOIR PARAMETERS;

GAS HYDRATES;

COMPRESSIBILITY; DRAWDOWN; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GAS HYDRATE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WELL COMPLETION; WELL TESTING;

EID: 70349661568     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/108971-PA     Document Type: Article

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