Maintaining an 'evergreen' model to optimise a waterflood development in a carbonate transition zone field

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/EAGE Reservoir Characterization and Simulation Conference 2009 - Overcoming Modeling Challenges to Optimize Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 753-766

  Warrlich, Georg M D ^a   Abu Shiekah, Issa ^a   Alexander, David M ^a   Zhu, Fuping ^a   Goossens, Peter M ^a   Tull, S ^a   Al Lamki, Ali A ^a  

^a Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE FIELDS; DEVELOPMENT WELLS; DRILLING DATA; FIELD DEVELOPMENT; FIELD DEVELOPMENT PLANS; GOOD PRACTICES; HEIGHT FUNCTIONS; HIGH POROSITY; HORIZONTAL PRODUCER; LOW PERMEABILITY; MATRIX; PREDICTION OF RESERVOIR; PRODUCTION WELLS; PROPERTY MODELS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERISATION; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE; ROCK QUALITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHUAIBA FORMATION; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC MODEL; SULTANATE OF OMAN; THIN OIL COLUMNS; TRANSITION ZONES; WATER FLOOD; WATERFLOODING; WELL DESIGN; WORK-FLOWS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; CAPILLARITY; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; STRATIGRAPHY; WELL FLOODING; WELLS;

WELL DRILLING;

EID: 77952072076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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