Why sand fails after water breakthrough

Gulf Rocks 2004 - 6th North America Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Han, Gang ^a   Dusseault, Maurice B ^b   Cook, John ^c  

^a Terralog Technologies Incorporated   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; REDUCTION; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

CAPILLARY STRENGTHS; ELASTO-PLASTIC MODELS; MAXIMUM SHEAR STRESS; MULTI-PHASE FLUID FLOW; NONLINEARITY MODELS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; STIFFNESS REDUCTION; WATER BREAKTHROUGH;

SAND;

EID: 85039473716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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