Determination of in situ two-phase flow properties through downhole fluid movement monitoring

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 575-587

  Kuchuk, Fikri ^a   Zhan, Lang ^a   Mark Ma, S ^a   Al Shahri, Ali M ^a   Ramakrishnan, T S ^b   Altundas, Y Bilgin ^b   Zeybek, Murat ^a   De Loubens, Romain ^b   Chugunov, Nikita ^b  

^a SPE   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; OIL WELL LOGGING; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

CARBONATE RESERVOIR; DIRECT DETERMINATION; DOWNHOLE PRESSURE; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; PRESSURE TRANSIENT; PRODUCTION LOGGING TOOLS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESISTIVITY ARRAYS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

BOREHOLE; CARBONATE ROCK; DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; HARDWARE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RECOVERY METHOD; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; WELL LOGGING;

EID: 77957765304     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/116068-PA     Document Type: Article

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