Interrelationship of temperature and wettability on the relative permeability of heavy oil in diatomaceous rocks

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-250

  Schembre, Josephina M ^a   Tang, Guo Qing ^a   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ROCKS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DIATOMACEOUS ROCKS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRUDE PETROLEUM; ROCKS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

HEAVY OIL; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; WETTABILITY;

EID: 33745635342     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/93831-pa     Document Type: Article

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