Measurement of aperture and multiphase flow in fractures with NMR imaging

SPE Formation Evaluation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 101-107

  Kumar, Arun T A ^a   Majors, Paul ^a   Rossen, William ^b  

^a SPE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC RELAXATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ROCKS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FRACTURE APERTURE; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (NMRI);

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

FRACTURES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPHASE FLOW; ROCK;

FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NMR;

EID: 0031171702     PISSN: 0885923X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/30558-pa     Document Type: Article

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