Temperature dependence of wettability related rock properties correlated by the Arrhenius equation

Petrophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 350-362

  Civan, Faruk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CAPILLARITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

ARRHENIUS EQUATIONS; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; POROUS ROCKS; WETTABILITY;

ROCKS;

EID: 4344626022     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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