Effects of wettability and pore-level displacement on hydrocarbon trapping

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 503-512

  Suicmez, V Sander ^a,b   Piri, Mohammad ^c   Blunt, Martin J ^b  

^a SAUDI ARAMCO   (Saudi Arabia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Double displacements; Fluid configurations; Network modeling; Pore occupancy; Relative permeability; Three phase flow; Trapping; Wettability

Indexed keywords

INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE STRUCTURE; SANDSTONE; TERTIARY RECOVERY; TWO PHASE FLOW; WELL FLOODING; WETTING;

HYDROCARBON TRAPPING; MIXED-WET RANDOM NETWORK MODEL; WATER-ALTERNATING-GAS INJECTION CYCLE;

HYDROCARBONS;

HYDROCARBONS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PORE STRUCTURE; SANDSTONE; TERTIARY RECOVERY; TWO PHASE FLOW; WELL FLOODING; WETTING;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FLUID INJECTION; HYDROCARBON; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; POREWATER; SANDSTONE; THREE PHASE FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WETTABILITY;

EID: 39149093945     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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