Spontaneous imbibition characteristics of diatomite

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 149-165

  Akin, S ^a   Schembre, J M ^a   Bhat, S K ^a   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Diatomite; Imbibition; Laboratory studies; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

DIATOMITE; WATER IMBIBITION;

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW OF WATER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POROSIMETERS; POROSITY; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

PETROLOGY;

FLUID FLOW; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR; WATER; X-RAY TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034119309     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-4105(00)00010-3     Document Type: Article

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