How to apply the flow velocity as a design criterion in RPM treatments

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-231

  Stavland, Arne ^a  

^a IRIS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PRODUCTIVITY; VELOCITY; WATER LEVELS;

COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; FRACTIONAL FLOW THEORY; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; PRESSURE CONSTRAINTS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; RESIDUAL RESISTANCE FACTOR; SATURATION PROFILES;

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

CLEANUP; DARCY LAW; DESIGN; HYDROCARBON; NEWTONIAN FLUID; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL; PERMEABILITY; SATURATION;

EID: 77953265982     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/121850-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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