A fully implicit, compositional, parallel simulator for IOR processes in fractured reservoirs

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1120-1131

  Naimi Tajdar, R ^a,c   Han, C ^a   Sepehrnoori, K ^a   Arbogast, T J ^a   Miller, M A ^b,d  

^a SPE ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c BP ^*

^d Lucid Reservoir Technologies   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROCKS; WELL FLOODING;

FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; MODELING FLUID FLOW; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; POROSITY MODELS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33745713739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/100079-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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