Determining reservoir properties and flood performance from tracer test analysis

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 2536-2554

  Michael Shook, G ^a   Pope, Gary A ^b   Asakawa, Kazuhiro ^c  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c PETROTEL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST-PRINCIPLES; FLOW CAPACITY; FLOW GEOMETRIES; FUNCTION OF TIME; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; MATHEMATICAL TREATMENTS; MEAN RESIDENCE TIME; MOMENT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARTITIONING TRACERS; REMAINING OIL SATURATIONS; RESERVOIR MODELS; RESERVOIR PROPERTY; RESIDENCE TIME; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; STORAGE CAPACITY; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; SWEPT VOLUME; TRACER CONCENTRATION; TRACER INJECTIONS; TRACER TESTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLTEN MATERIALS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 78349284013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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