Simulating residual saturation and relative permeability in heterogeneous formations

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 321-328

  Paterson, Lincoln ^a   Painter, Scott ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^b   Pinczewski, Val ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF CORRELATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; IN-CORE MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK MODELS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR ROCK; RESIDUAL SATURATION; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION;

POROUS MATERIALS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

ANISOTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

EID: 0029749770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/36523-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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