Horizontal well performance in oil reservoirs with bottom water or gas cap

Annual Technical Meeting, ATM 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  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

HORIZONTAL WELLS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; VISCOSITY;

ANISOTROPY COEFFICIENTS; BREAKTHROUGH TIME; CONSTANT POTENTIAL; DIMENSIONLESS VARIABLES; MOVING BOUNDARIES; NO-FLOW BOUNDARIES; RESERVOIR THICKNESS; STEAM STIMULATION;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 85085408298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/96-20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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