Wettability effects on oil-recovery mechanisms in fractured reservoirs

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 455-465

  Graue, A ^a   Bogno T ^a   Baldwin, B A ^b   Spinier, E A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Green Country Petrophysics   (United States)

^c Subsurface Technology Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); IMAGING SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL FLOODING; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE; RECOVERY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WETTING;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; IN SITU FLUID SATURATIONS; OIL RECOVERY MECHANISM; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; WETTABILITY EFFECTS;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 0035715249     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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