Enhancing liquid lift from low pressure gas reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting 1999, RMR 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Yamamoto, Hiro ^a   Christiansen, Richard L ^b  

^a SPE ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF GASES; GAS INDUSTRY; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; TUBING;

CRITICAL RATES; FLOW MECHANISMS; FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTIONS; GAS RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW PRESSURE GAS; OPTIMUM DIAMETERS; SURROUNDING FORMATIONS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 85088773250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/55625-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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