Compositional modeling of retrograde gas-condensate reservoirs in multimechanistic flow domains

SPE Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 480-487

  Ayala, Luis F ^a   Ertekin, Turgay ^a   Adewumi, Michael ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); GAS CONDENSATES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

DARCIAN FLOW; DIFFUSIVE FLOW; FICKIAN-LIKE FLOW; MULTIMECHANISTIC FLOW;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33846207856     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/94856-PA     Document Type: Article

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