A Critical Review of the Use of Pseudorelative Permeabilities for Upscaling

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 138-143

  Barker, John W ^a   Thibeau, Sylvain ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PSEUDORELATIVE PERMEABILITY METHODS; UPSCALING;

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0031143418     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/35491-PA     Document Type: Article

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