Distribution of sulfur deposition near a wellbore in a sour gas reservoir

Journal of Geophysics and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hu, Jinghong ^a   Yang, Xuefeng ^b   He, Shunli ^c   Zhao, Jinzhou ^d  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b Southwest Oil and Gas Field Company   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^d SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

critical velocity; experiment; liquid bridge force; reservoir damage; sulfur deposition

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE; RESERVOIR ROCK; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84873893550     PISSN: 17422132     EISSN: 17422140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-2132/10/1/015005     Document Type: Article

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