Capillary Entrapment Caused by Small-Scale Wettability Heterogeneities

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 93-99

  Van Lingen, Paul P ^a   Bruining, Johannes ^a   Van Kruijsdijk, C P J W ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WETTING;

CAPILLARY ENTRAPMENT; IMMISCIBLE FLOODING; LAMINATED CROSSBED SET; SMALL SCALE WETTABILITY HETEROGENEITIES;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 0030134067     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/30782-pa     Document Type: Article

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