Wettability alteration gas-condensate reservoirs to mitigate well deliverability loss by water blocking

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 676-685

  Noh, Myeong ^a,b   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^c  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT ANGLE; FLOW OF GASES; GAS CONDENSATES; GAS PERMEABILITY; GASES; LIQUIDS; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WETTING;

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; GAS CONDENSATE RESERVOIRS; GAS RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; LIQUID SATURATION; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; WELL DELIVERABILITY; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

GAS CONDENSATE; GAS FLOW; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR ROCK; WETTABILITY;

AFRICA; BEREA; LESOTHO; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 52949126907     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/98375-pa     Document Type: Article

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