Permanent Alteration of Porous Media Wettability from Liquid-Wetting to Intermediate Gas-Wetting

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 189-213

  Wu, Stanley ^a   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^a,b  

^a RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical treatment; Contact angle; Imbibition; Porous media; Rock; Wettability

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GAS PRODUCTIONS; GAS WELL; IMBIBITION; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ON FLOW; POROUS MEDIA; RESERVOIR ROCK; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; TIGH TRESERVOIRS; WATER FLOW RATE; WATER RETENTION; WATER-BLOCKING; WET ROCKS; WETTABILITY; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

CONTACT ANGLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GASES; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUIDS; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; NATURAL GAS WELLS; NITROGEN; PARAFFINS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER TREATMENT;

WETTING;

CHEMICAL REACTION; FLOW STRUCTURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMBIBITION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; WATER FLOW; WETTABILITY;

EID: 77956878650     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9554-3     Document Type: Article

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