Effect of IFT variation and wettability on three-phase relative permeability

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 211-220

  Cinar, Yildiray ^a,c   Marquez, Sharoh ^b,c   Orr Jr , Franklin M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Total UK Geoscience Research Center   (United Kingdom)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROCHEMICALS; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WETTING;

INTERFACIAL TENSION (IFT); JOHNSON-BOSSLER-NAUMANN (JBN) METHOD; OIL-WET POROUS SYSTEMS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

CRUDE PETROLEUM; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROCHEMICALS; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WETTING;

PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE DROP; SURFACE TENSION; WETTABILITY;

EID: 34447336382     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/90572-pa     Document Type: Article

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