Time-Dependent Shape Factors for Interporosity Flow in Naturally Fractured Gas-Condensate Reservoirs

SPE Proceedings - Gas Technology Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 183-200

  Penuela, G ^a   Civan, F ^a   Hughes, R G ^a   Wiggins, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); GAS CONDENSATES; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VISCOSITY;

FRACTURE TRANSFER FUNCTION; INTERPOROSITY FLOW; MOLAR DENSITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 1642500926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/75524-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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