Understanding Waterflood Residual Oil Saturation of Four Carbonate Rock Types

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1523-1532

  Kamath, Jairam ^a   Meyer, Robert F ^b   Nakagawa, Frank M ^c  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c Chevron Research and Technology Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RESIDUAL FUELS; ROCK MECHANICS; WETTING;

PRESSURE GRADIENTS; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION (ROS);

WELL FLOODING;

EID: 1142290701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/71505-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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