Productivity of multiple drainholes or fractured horizontal wells
Journal Article
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· SPE Formation Evaluation (Society of Petroleum Engineers); (United States)
- Texas A and M Univ., College Station (United States)
- Joshi Technologies International Inc., Tulsa, OK (United States)
Drilling technique advances enable multiple drainholes to be drilled from a single vertical borehole. In some situations, radial drain holes also may be drilled at several elevations. Multiple radials may be more advantageous because they provide a larger contact area. Horizontal wells also are completed often with hydraulic fractures at more than one point along the horizontal well. The objective of this paper is to present methods to evaluate well productivity for the conditions noted above. Most available correlations to determine horizontal-well productivity consider only single wellbores.
- OSTI ID:
- 6062052
- Journal Information:
- SPE Formation Evaluation (Society of Petroleum Engineers); (United States), Journal Name: SPE Formation Evaluation (Society of Petroleum Engineers); (United States) Vol. 8:1; ISSN 0885-923X; ISSN SFEVEG
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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