Modeling of Sand and Crude Oil Flow in Horizontal Pipes during Crude Oil Transportation

Some oil and gas reservoirs are often weakly consolidated making them liable to sand intrusion. During upstream petroleum production operations, crude oil and sand eroded from formation zones are often transported as a mixture through horizontal pipes up to the well heads and between well heads and...

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Main Authors: Samuel Eshorame Sanni, A. S. Olawale, S. S. Adefila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/457860