Scaleup of Reservoir-Model Relative Permeability with a Global Method

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 149-156

  Li, Dachang ^a   Cullick, A S ^b   Lake, Larry W ^c  

^a Western Atlas ^*

^b MOBIL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRESSURE; SHOCK WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHASE FLOW; VELOCITY;

DYNAMIC PSEUDO METHODS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID SATURATION; GRID CELLS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATERFLOODING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0030219313     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/29872-pa     Document Type: Article

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