Understanding wormholing mechanisms can improve acid treatments in carbonate formations

SPE Production and Facilities

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 168-175

  Buijse, M A ^a,b  

^a Halliburton BV Europ Res Center   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REACTION KINETICS; ROCKS;

CARBONATE FORMATIONS; CONVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; FINITE ACID ROCK REACTION RATE; FLUID DISTRIBUTION; WORMHOLING;

ACIDIZATION;

CARBONATE;

EID: 0034238067     PISSN: 1064668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.2118/65068-PA     Document Type: Article

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