Gelled scale inhibitor treatment for improved placement in long horizontal wells at Nome and Heidrun fields

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-438

  Selle, Olav Martin ^a   Springer, Martin ^a   Auflem, Inge H ^b   Chen, Ping ^c   Matheson, Rozenn ^d   Mebratu, Amare ^e   Glasbergen, Gerard ^f  

^a Reserves and Plans North   (United States)

^b Champion Technologies

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Champion Technologies Eastern Hemisphere   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEIDRUN FIELD; HIGH PERMEABILITY; HIGH-LOW; LONG HORIZONTAL WELLS; LOW PRESSURES; PERMEABILITY PRESSURE; PLACEMENT EFFICIENCY; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; SCALE-INHIBITORS; TREATMENT VOLUMES;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

FLUID FLOW; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SCALE EFFECT; VISCOUS FLOW; WELL TESTING;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; HALTENBANKEN; HEIDRUN FIELD; NOME; NORTH AMERICA; NORWEGIAN SEA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349677479     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/112464-PA     Document Type: Article

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