A critical review for proper use of water/oil/gas transfer functions in dual-porosity naturally fractured reservoirs: Part I

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 200-210

  Ramirez, B ^a,b   Kazemi, H ^a   Al Kobaisi, M ^a   Ozkan, E ^c   Atan, S ^b  

^a SPE ^*

^b MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FRACTURE; GRAVITATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY;

ACCURATE CALCULATIONS; CONVECTIVE MASS TRANSFER; FUNCTION EQUATIONS; INTER-PHASE MASS TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; MULTIPHASE FLUIDS; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

FRACTURE; MASS TRANSFER; MATRIX; POROSITY; RESERVOIR; STEAM INJECTION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 67649484714     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/109821-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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