Upscaled multi-phase flow properties of fracture corridors

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Caspian Carbonates Technology Conference 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 35-48

  Ahmed Elfeel, M ^a   Couples, G ^a   Geiger, S ^a   Ma, J ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT; DISCRETE FRACTURES; DRIVING FORCES; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT; FRACTURE CORRIDORS; FRACTURE PATTERN; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; FRACTURED ROCK; GRID BLOCKS; MATRIX; MULTI-PHASE FLOW PROPERTIES; ON FLOW; PERFORMANCE MATCH; PERMEABILITY MODEL; POROSITY MODELS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; REMAINING OIL; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; UPSCALED RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; UPSCALING; UPSCALING METHODS;

CARBONATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FRACTURE; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; PROVEN RESERVES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 79952642137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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