Water and gas coning in the oil reservoirs with steady state and transient flow (Part I: Vertical wells)

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Permian Basin Oil and Gas Recovery Conference, OGR 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 599-612

  Azar Nejad, F ^a   Tortike, W S ^a   Ali, S M Farouq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRUDE OIL; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GASES; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ANISOTROPIC RESERVOIRS; DIMENSIONLESS VARIABLES; FLUID FLOW MECHANISMS; INNER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RESERVOIR WITH BOTTOM WATERS; STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENTS; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 85058475174     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/35219-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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