Evaluation of long-term performance of oil wells in Elm Coulee field

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2011, CURC 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 1754-1765

  Kurtoglu, B ^a   Cox, S A ^a   Kazemi, H ^b  

^a MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HORIZONTAL WELLS; OIL WELL COMPLETION; OIL WELL LOGGING; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE VALUATION; WELL STIMULATION;

DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE STIMULATION; LONG TERM PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY; RESERVOIR PARAMETERS; UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS; VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL WELLS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84860608565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/149273-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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