Advances in wireline conveyed in-situ reservoir stress testing measurements: Case studies from the sultanate of Oman

Society of Petroleum Engineers - International Petroleum Technology Conference 2009, IPTC 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 981-994

  Cig, Koksal ^a   Al Mandhari, Alyaqdhan Sulaiman ^a   El Msallati, Salem Mohammed ^b   Qobi, Latifa ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE STABILITY; COLD INJECTION; DUAL PACKERS; FRACTURE GROWTH; GEOMECHANICS; HIGH PERMEABILITY FORMATION; IN-SITU; MINIMUM STRESS; POLYMER INJECTION; RESERVOIR STRESS; SAND PRODUCTION; STRESS EVOLUTION; STRESS TESTING; STRESS TESTING METHOD; SULTANATE OF OMAN; VISCOUS FLUIDS; WELL PLACEMENT;

BOREHOLES; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TESTING; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SHALE; STRESS MEASUREMENT; WATER INJECTION; WELL TESTING;

RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77952365421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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