A dynamic model to simulate foamy oil flow in porous media

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 687-699

  Sheng, J J ^a   Hayes, R E ^b   Maini, B B ^b   Tortike, W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Petroleum Recovery Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COALESCENCE; CRUDE OIL; GASES; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; QUANTUM THEORY; TWO PHASE FLOW; BUBBLE FORMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

FIELD PERFORMANCE; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; OPERATION CONDITIONS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; RATE OF PRESSURE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SOLUTION GAS DRIVE; SOLUTION-GAS DRIVE MODEL;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

FOAMY OIL FLOW; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0029770281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/36750-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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