Relative Permeabilities from Displacement Experiments with Full Account for Capillary Pressure

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 92-97

  Helset, H M ^a   Nordtvedt, J E ^a   Skjaeveland S M ^a   Virnovsky, G A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIA;

EID: 0031670244     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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