Effect of fracture and flow orientation on two-phase flow in an oil-wet fracture: Relative permeability curves and flow structures

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North American Regional Meeting 2010 - In Collaboration with the Joint Meetings of the Pacific Section AAPG and Cordilleran Section GSA

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 69-81

  Shad, Saeed ^a   Maini, Brij B ^b   Gates, Ian D ^b  

^a Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; FLOW ORIENTATIONS; FLOW PATH; FLOW REGIMES; FLUID SATURATIONS; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; GAS LIQUID FLOWS; HEAVY OIL; HELE-SHAW; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL-WATER; PHASE FLOW; PHASE SATURATIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SINGLE FRACTURE; TRANSFER PARAMETERS;

ENGINEERS; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; HEAVY WATER; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FRACTURE;

EID: 77958493809     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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