A New Method to Calculate Effective Permeability of Gridblocks Used in the Simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 219-223

  Lough, Michael F ^a   Lee, Seong H ^a   Kamath, Jairam ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; GRIDBLOCKS; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0031207307     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/36730-pa     Document Type: Article

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