Three-Phase Relative Permeability of Petroleum Reservoirs

Proceedings of the SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 202-216

  Pejic, Dragan ^a   Maini, Brij B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FRACTALS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SURFACE TENSION; WATER; WETTING;

GAS SATURATION; THREE PHASE FLOWS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0347629344     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/81021-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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