Extracting Capillary Pressure and Global Mobility from Spontaneous Imbibition Data in Oil-Water-Rock Systems

SPE - Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 697-704

  Li, Kewen ^a   Horne, Roland N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; GRAVITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCKS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY; WETTING; X RAYS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; GLOBAL MOBILITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0345789962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/80553-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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