Prediction of wellbore temperature profiles during heavy oil production assisted with light oil

SPE Production and Operations Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-137

  Yu, Yanmin ^a   Lin, Tao ^b   Xie, Hongxing ^b   Guan, Yanyan ^a   Li, Kewen ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Sinopec ^*  (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CRUDE OIL; FLOWTHROUGH; INJECTION RATES; LIGHT OIL; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEASURED DATA; TEMPERATURE MODELS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; WELLBORE; WELLBORE TEMPERATURE;

BORING; CRUDE PETROLEUM; OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; VISCOSITY; WELL STIMULATION;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 70449590040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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