Inaccurate gas viscosity at HPHT conditions and its effect on unconventional gas reserves estimation

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 1195-1203

  Davani, Ehsan ^a   Ling, Kegang ^a   Teodoriu, Catalin ^a   McCain Jr , William D ^a   Falcone, Gioia ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; GAS FIELDS; GAS FLOWRATE; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS PROPERTIES; GAS RESERVES; GAS VISCOSITY; GAS VISCOSITY CORRELATION; HIGH-PRESSURE AND HIGH-TEMPERATURE; IMPURITIES IN; INDUSTRY NEEDS; INFLOW PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIPS; MEASURED DATA; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; PRODUCTION FORECASTING;

ERRORS; GAS INDUSTRY; MINING ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESERVES TO PRODUCTION RATIO; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

GASES;

EID: 70449900564     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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