Upscaling two-phase flow in naturally fractured reservoirs

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1621-1632

  Matthai, Stephan K ^a   Nick, Hamidreza M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

FRACTURE-MATRIX INTERFACE; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OIL RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; STEADY-STATE COMPUTATIONS;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; FLOW PATTERN; FRACTURE ORIENTATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROSITY; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SATURATION;

EID: 73449146288     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/08030909085     Document Type: Article

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