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PRODUCTIVITY OF HORIZONTAL AND MULTILATERAL WELLS

Petroleum Science and Technology, 2001
This paper introduces a new semi-analytical technique that can be applied to calculate the productivity of vertical, horizontal and multilateral wells. The well location and profile can be arbitrary. The reservoir region containing the well must be homogeneous (isotropic or anisotropic) and it may have constant potential or no-flow outer boundaries ...
Khalid Aziz, Liang-Biao Ouyang
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Multilateral-Complex Well Optimization

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, 2011
Abstract Reservoir simulation is used to optimize the design of multilateral wells, where the parameters include the well path, well position, the completions design (e.g. ICD configuration), the production constraints and uncertainty from multiple realizations of a geological model. The target application is the design of
P. I. Crumpton, W. A. Habiballah, P. G. Wardell-Yerburgh, K. A. Nasser, A. A. Faleh   +4 more
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Multilateral Horizontal Well Productivity

SPE Europec/EAGE Annual Conference, 2005
AbstractThis paper presents experimental and theoretical investigations of multilateral/duallateral horizontal well performance in areally anisotropic reservoirs. The investigation is based on a 3D analytical solution. The analytical solution considers an arbitrary orientation of the multilaterals/duallaterals in horizontal plane.Experimental study was
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Temperature Behavior in Multilateral Wells: Application to Intelligent Well

Proceedings of SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, 2005
Abstract Intelligent well completions are being increasingly used in complex wells (horizontal, multilateral, or multibranching). Such completions are equipped with permanent sensors to measure temperature and pressure profiles, which then must be interpreted to determine the inflow profiles of the various phases produced.
A. Romero, D. Zhu, A. D. Hill
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Inflow Performance of a Stacked Multilateral Well

SPE Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Modelling for Asset Management, 1998
Abstract The use of multilateral well is becoming an emerging method to improve oilrecovery efficiently. A stacked multilateral well can produce fluids from twoor more separate productive zones. Unlike a commingled vertical well, inflow performance relationship (IPR) of a multilateral system is influenced by ...
P. Permadi, W. Wibowo, A.K. Permadi
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Optimal multilateral well placement

2010
One is often faced with the problem of finding the optimal location and trajectory for an oil well. Increasingly this includes the additional complication of optimising the design of a multilateral well. We present a new approach based on the theory of expensive function optimisation.
Farmer, CL, Fowkes, JM, Gould, N I M
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Overcoming the Perceived Risk of Multilateral Wells

SPE Offshore Europe Conference and Exhibition, 2015
Abstract Multilaterals are often cited as technology that can be implemented to maximize reservoir recovery rates. However, few operators have been willing to put multilaterals into practice. The most frequently cited reason for not considering multilaterals is risk.
Ben Butler, Andreas Grossmann, Joe Parlin, Chet Sekhon   +3 more
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Well-Test Analysis in Low-Permeability Multilateral Wells

International Petroleum Technology Conference, 2005
This reference is for an abstract only. A full paper was not submitted for this conference. Abstract Multilateral horizontal wells are used extensively in a number of reservoirs around the world, and particularly in the Middle- East. Development is often based on patterns of multilateral producers and
A.C. Gringarten, R. Sharma, A.K. Rajvanshi   +2 more
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Economic Viability of Multilateral Wells

Journal of Petroleum Technology, 2000
This article is a synopsis of paper SPE 59202, "The Economic Viability of Multilateral Wells," James P. Oberkircher, Sperry-Sun Drilling Services, originally presented at the 2000 IADC/SPE Drilling Conference, New Orleans, 23-25 February.
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Evaluation of Crossflow Effects in Multilateral Wells

SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, 2002
Abstract As drilling and completion technology has advanced dramatically, developing new oil fields faces new opportunities of well structure selection, especially for the fields that are sensitive to issues such as environmental conservation, cost effectiveness, safety control, and well management.
D. Zhu, A. D. Hill, W. R. Landrum
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