Primary and secondary oil recovery from different wettability rocks by countercurrent diffusion and spontaneous imbibition

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 41-52

  Hatiboglu, C U ^a   Babadagli, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; FLUIDS; LIMESTONE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SANDSTONE; SOLUBILITY; WETTING;

MATRIX WETTABILITY; MISCIBLE FLUID INJECTIONS; MISCIBLE FLUIDS; ROCK TYPES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33745700512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/94120-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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