Characterization of reservoir heterogeneity through fluid movement monitoring with deep electromagnetic and pressure measurements

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 509-522

  Zhan, Lang ^a   Kuchuk, Fikrl ^a   Al Shahri, Ali M ^b   Ma, S Mark ^b   Ramakrishnan, T S ^a   Altundas, Y B ^a   Zeybek, Murat ^a   Manin, Yves ^a   Tartaras, Efihimios ^a   De Loubens, Romain ^a   Chugunov, Nikita ^a  

^a SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^b Saudi Aramco's Northern Area Reservoir Management Department   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC LOGGING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

CARBONATE RESERVOIR; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; LOCALIZED SENSITIVITIES; LOW-SALINITY WATER; PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY; RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; WIRELINE FORMATION TESTER;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CARBONATE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL WELL; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR;

EID: 77955373355     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/116328-PA     Document Type: Article

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