How many relative permeability measurements do you need? A case study from a North African reservoir

Petrophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 262-270

  Mohammed, Khalifa ^a,b   Corbett, Patrick ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Repsol Oil Company   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENTS;

PETROCHEMICALS;

EID: 0041375516     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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