Effect of temperature on heavy-oil/water relative permeabilities

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1999-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 329-338

  Akin, Serhat ^a   Castanier, Louis M ^a   Brigham, William E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRUDE OIL; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); THERMAL EFFECTS;

BLACK-OIL SIMULATORS; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; SATURATION PROFILES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; WATER SATURATION;

EID: 0031642776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/49021-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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