Relative permeability estimation from displacement experiments using EnKF method

Society of Petroleum Engineers - International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in China 2010, IOGCEC

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2234-2244

  Li, Heng ^a   Yang, Daoyong ^a   Arhuoma, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE SAMPLES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY ESTIMATION; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

EID: 78650599286     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/131633-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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