The Effect of Rock Surface Characteristics on Reservoir Wettability

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 738-748

  Vijapurapu, Chandra S ^a   Rao, Dandina N ^a   Lian, Kun ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; HYSTERESIS; METHANOL; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ROCKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WETTING;

PHASE CONTACT; WETTABILITY;

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 1642476377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/75211-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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