Impacts from fractures on oil-recovery mechanisms in carbonate rocks at oil-wet and water-wet conditions - Visualizing fluid flow across fractures with MRI

Society of Petroleum Engineers - 2nd International Oil Conference and Exhibition in Mexico 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 370-377

  Ferno M A ^a   Ersland, G ^a   Haugen, A ^a   Johannesen, E ^a   Graue, A ^a   Stevens, J ^b   Howard, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Phillips Research Center 224GB

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; WETTING;

CARBONATE ROCK; MATRIX TRANSFER; VISCOUS OILS; WETTING PHASE BRIDGES;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 36248998256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/108699-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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