Impact of Fracture Permeability on Oil Recovery in Moderately Water-Wet Fractured Chalk Reservoirs

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 406-413

  Graue, A ^a   Nesse, K ^a   Baldwin, B A ^b   Spinler, E A ^c   Tobola, D P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Green Country Petrophysics   (United States)

^c Phillips Petr Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDROCARBONS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; PRESSURE DROP; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

NUCLEAR TRACER IMAGING (NTI); OIL RECOVERY;

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

EID: 1642558094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/75165-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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