Capillary trapping in water-wet sandstones: Coreflooding experiments and pore-network modeling

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1245-1253

  Pentland, Christopher H ^a   Tanino, Yukie ^a   Iglauer, Stefan ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEOLOGY; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; POROUS PLATES;

DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; PORE NETWORK SIMULATOR; PORE-NETWORK MODELING; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

SANDSTONE;

EID: 78651083696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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