Layered fluvial reservoirs with internal fluid cross flow: A well-connected family of well test pressure transient responses

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-229

  Corbett, Patrick W M ^a   Hamdi, Hamidreza ^a   Gurav, Hemant ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WELL TESTING;

FLUVIAL RESERVOIRS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; INTERNAL FLUID; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; STATIC DYNAMICS; TEST PRESSURE; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES; WELL TEST DATA;

TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID FLOW; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MODELING; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84860132935     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079311-008     Document Type: Article

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