Scaling of viscosity ratio for oil recovery by imbibition from mixed-wet rocks

Petrophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 338-346

  Tong, Zhengxin ^a   Xie, Xina ^a   Morrow, Norman R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ROCKS; THIN FILMS; VISCOSITY; WETTING;

MIXED-WET ROCKS; OIL RECOVERY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0036650199     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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5. Initial water saturation and oil recovery from chalk and sandstone by spontaneous imbibition
6. Oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition from weakly water-wet rocks
7. Contact angle hysteresis and the stability of wetting changes induced by absorption from crude oil
8. Experimental verification of a modified scaling group for spontaneous imbibition