Two-phase flow choke performance in high rate gas condensate wells

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 576-584

  Nasriani, Hamid Reza ^a   Kalantariasl, Azim ^b  

^a Iranian Central Oil Fields Co ^*  (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; BACK PRESSURES; CHOKE PERFORMANCE; CONTROL FLOW RATE; CRITICAL FLOW; CRITICAL FLOW CONDITIONS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; ERROR PARAMETERS; FIELD DATA; FORMATION DAMAGE; GAS CONING; HIGH RATE GAS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OIL AND GAS; OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM ENGINEERS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; SUB-CRITICAL CONDITION; SUBCRITICAL FLOW; SURFACE EQUIPMENT;

ENGINEERS; EXHIBITIONS; FLOW CONTROL; GAS CONDENSATES; GASES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; WELLHEADS;

FLOWING WELLS;

EID: 84857266651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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