Isolation of a horizontal hole section in an openhole well using a nondamaging temporary gel plug to facilitate hydrocarbon production from the remaining lateral section - A case history from Kuwait

Proceedings of the SPE/IADC Middle East Drilling Technology Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 2001-October, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Khater, Mohammed R ^a   Uddin, Shahab ^b   Al Rubaiyea, Jamal A ^b   Rai, Ashish R ^c   Gazi, Naz ^d  

^a Saudi Arabian Texaco Inc   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KUWAIT OIL COMPANY   (Kuwait)

^c Halliburton Overseas Ltd ^*  (Kuwait)

^d HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; COILED TUBING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDROCARBONS; INFILL DRILLING; JOB ANALYSIS; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELLS; WELL LOGGING; WELL TESTING;

COILED-TUBING-CONVEYED PRODUCTION; COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; ECONOMICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS; HORIZONTAL SECTION; HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION; LOGGING WHILE DRILLING; SOURCE OF WATERS;

OIL WELL LOGGING;

EID: 84888968386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/72291-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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