Waterflood Residual Oil Saturation - The Buffalo Field, Timor Sea

SPE - Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 121-135

  Behrenbruch, Peter ^a  

^a BHP Petroleum   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE HARDENING; AQUIFERS; CAPILLARITY; CONTAMINATION; CORE ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL FLOODING; ROCK MECHANICS; WELL DRILLING; WETTING;

OIL SATURATION; WETTABILITIES;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 1842484442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/64282-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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