Analysis of horizontal-well responses: Contemporary vs. conventional

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Mid-Continent Operations Symposium 1999, MCOS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Ozkan, Erdal ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL WELLS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

CONTEMPORARY MODELS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CONVENTIONAL MODELS; NON-UNIFORM SKIN; VERTICAL WELLS; WELLBORE;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 85085408518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/52199-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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