3D Pore Scale Characterisation of Carbonate Core: Relating pore types and interconnectivity to petrophysical and multiphase flow properties

International Petroleum Technology Conference 2007, IPTC 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1807-1812

  Knackstedt, Mark A ^a   Arns, Christoph H ^a   Sok, Rob M ^a   Sheppard, Adrian P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CARBONATE CORES; CARBONATE ROCK; CHARACTERISATION; CORE MATERIAL; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE DATA; INTERCONNECTIVITY; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MACROPORES; MERCURY INJECTION CAPILLARY PRESSURES; MICRON SCALE; MULTI-PHASE FLOW PROPERTIES; PETROPHYSICAL; PORE INTERCONNECTIVITY; PORE SCALE; PORE SHAPE; PORE SPACE; PORE TYPES; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; THIN SECTION; VISUAL INSPECTION;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; COREMAKING; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MERCURY (METAL); MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

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EID: 70449641521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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