Practical use of scale up and parallel reservoir simulation technologies in field studies

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 368-376

  Tchelepi, H A ^a   Durlofsky, L J ^b   Chen, W H ^b   Bernath, Alan ^b   Chien, M C H ^b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; SCALE EFFECT; WATERFLOODING;

FLOW MODELING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR FLOODING; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0032748055     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/57475-PA     Document Type: Article

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