A rigorous compressible streamline formulation for two- and three-phase black-oil simulation

SPE Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 407-417

  Cheng, Hao ^a,b   Osako, Ichiro ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^a   King, Michael J ^c  

^a Texas A and M Transportation Institute   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PRESSURE;

BLACK-OIL; FLUID VOLUME; STREAMLINE MODELS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 33846262943     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/96866-PA     Document Type: Article

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