Elimination of liquid loading in low-productivity gas wells

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Production Operations Symposium, POS 1989

Volumn , Issue , 1989, Pages 137-144

  Neves, T R ^a   Brimhall, A M ^b  

^a Texas Oil and Gas Co ^*  (United States)

^b Centre for Translational Cancer Research IBT Texas A and M HSC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUIDS; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; OIL WELLS;

ARTIFICIAL LIFT METHODS; GAS WELL; LIQUID LOADING; OPTIMUM METHOD; WELLBORE;

LOADING;

EID: 85054497479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/18833-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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