Dependence of Waterflood Remaining Oil Saturation on Relative Permeability, Capillary Pressure, and Reservoir Parameters in Mixed-Wet Turbidite Sands

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-91

  Hirasaki, George J ^a,b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHELL OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

CAPROCK; FILM SURFACE DRAINAGE; PROTOTYPE TURBIDITE SANDS; REMAINING OIL SATURATION (ROS); UPDIP MIGRATION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 0030134689     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/30763-pa     Document Type: Article

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