Disproportionate Permeability Reduction Is Not a Panacea

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 359-366

  Stavland, Arne ^a,b   Ekrann, Steinar ^c   Hettervik, K O ^c   Jakobson, S R ^c   Schmidt, Terje ^c   Schilling, Birgitte ^c  

^a RF Rogaland Research   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY;

HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0032420439     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/50983-pa     Document Type: Article

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