Wettability Effect on Oil Relative Permeability during a Gravity Drainage

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1853-1861

  Pedrera, B ^a   Bertin, H ^a   Hamon, G ^b   Augustin, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b TOTAL   (France)

^c GAZ DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; WETTING;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; OIL RECOVERY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 1142290950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/77542-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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