Residual gas saturation revisited

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 467-476

  Kantzas, Apostolos ^a   Ding, Minghua ^b   Lee, Jong ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TIPM Laboratory   (Canada)

^c PETRO CANADA   (Canada)

^d Mackenzie Delta Gas Exploration and Development   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WELL FLOODING; WELL TESTING; WETTING;

CORE CLEANING; FORCED IMBIBITION TEST; GAS SATURATED ZONE; NONWETTING PHASE; RESIDUAL GAS SATURATION;

NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 0035717067     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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