Formation damage and filter cake buildup in laboratory core tests: Modeling and model-assisted analysis

SPE Formation Evaluation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 26-30

  Liu, Xinghui ^a   Civan, Faruk ^b  

^a SPE

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE TEST; FILTER CAKE BUILDUP; FORMATION DAMAGE; FORMATION FINES; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; WETTABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POROSITY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; WETTING;

DARCY EQUATION; FILTER CAKE BUILDUP; FORMATION DAMAGE; LABORATORY CORE TESTS; WETTABILITY;

CORE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030107164     PISSN: 0885923X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/25215-PA     Document Type: Article

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