Pore network modeling of laboratory experiments on heterogeneous carbonates

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 61-67

  Kamath, J ^a   Xu, B ^b   Lee, S H ^a   Yortsos, Y C ^b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b University of Southern   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; FLOODS; LABORATORIES; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL WELL FLOODING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; WETTING;

HETEROGENEOUS CARBONATES; LABORATORY ASSESSMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PORE-NETWORK MODELING; POROSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

HETEROGENEOUS CARBONATES; POROSITY DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029748717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/36681-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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