Determination of wettability and its effect on waterflood performance in limestone medium

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 438-449

  Karabakal, Ugur ^a   Bagci, Suat ^b  

^a TURKISH PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIMESTONE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SODIUM CHLORIDE; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WETTING;

AGING TIME; AMOTT HARVEY METHOD; BRINE SALINITY; OIL RECOVERY; ROCK WETTABILITY;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 1842510498     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef030002f     Document Type: Article

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