Permeability estimation of damaged formations near wellbore

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 2816-2828

  Shi, Xiaoyan ^a   Prodanović, Maša ^a   Holder, Jon ^a   Gray, K E ^a   DiCarlo, David ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; MECHANICAL STABILITY; NUMERICAL MODELS; OIL WELLS; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS;

DAMAGED FORMATION; DELAUNAY TESSELLATIONS; DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; MECHANISM OF FORMATION; MICROSCOPIC POINTS; NETWORK FLOW MODEL; PERMEABILITY ESTIMATION; PERMEABILITY IMPAIRMENTS;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856664920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/146833-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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