Wettability alteration and imbibition effects in steam recovery from matrix blocks in fractured reservoirs

13th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 71-78

  Motealleh, Siyavash ^a   De Zwart, Bert Rik ^a   Bruining, Hans ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL HEATING; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; HIGH TEMPERATURE; STEAM RECOVERIES; THERMALLY INDUCED; WATER-WET SYSTEMS; WETTABILITY ALTERATION; WETTING PROPERTY;

CONTACT ANGLE; CRUDE OIL; EXPERIMENTS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; RECOVERY; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WATER INJECTION; WETTING;

STEAM;

EID: 77958480060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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