Evaluating crossflow effects in multilateral wells Academic Article

abstract

• Advances in drilling and completion technologies create new opportunities for well structure selection design, especially for fields that are sensitive to environmental conservation, cost-effectiveness, safety control, and well management. Horizontal, multibranching, and multilateral technologies are used to enhance hydrocarbon recovery. Producing from complex well structures can be difficult and, sometimes, detrimental to overall recovery. A mathematical model was developed to predict well performance for horizontal and multilateral wells using coupled multiphase models of wellbore/reservoir flow.

authors

• Hill, Alfred
• Zhu, Ding

published proceedings

• JPT, Journal of Petroleum Technology

author list (cited authors)

• Zhu, D., Hill, A. D., & Londrum, W. R.

complete list of authors

• Zhu, D||Hill, AD||Londrum, WR

publication date

• July 2002

published in

• JPT, Journal of Petroleum Technology  Journal

start page

• 52

volume

• 54

issue

• 7