Modeling foam displacement with the local equilibrium approximation: Theory and experiment verification

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 4700-4718

  Chen, Q ^a   Gerritsen, M G ^a   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COALESCENCE; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLOW OF GASES; FORECASTING; GASES; POROUS MATERIALS; TEXTURES;

DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENT VERIFICATION; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; POPULATION BALANCE APPROACH; POPULATION BALANCE MODELING; PORE-LEVEL MECHANISMS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

OIL FIELD EQUIPMENT;

EID: 58849094151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/116735-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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