Probing the archie's exponent under variable saturation conditions

Petrophysics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-134

  Kumar, Munish ^a   Senden, Tim J ^b   Sheppard, Adrian P ^b   Arns, Christoph H ^c   Knackstedt, Mark A ^a  

^a Digitalcore Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D ANALYSIS; 3D IMAGING; CLEAN SAND; CRYO-SEM; CT IMAGING; FLUID DISTRIBUTION; FLUID SATURATIONS; GRAIN CONTACTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MULTIPHASE FLUIDS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PORE REGION; PORE SCALE; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; RESISTIVITY RESPONSE; ROCK STRUCTURES; SATURATION CONDITIONS; SATURATION EXPONENT; SEM ANALYSIS; SIMULATION RESULT; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; THIN WATER FILMS; TOPOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; VARIABLE SATURATION; WATER FILM; WATER SATURATIONS; WETTING FLUID; WETTING PHASE;

CARBONATES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; MICROPOROSITY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WETTING;

FLUIDS;

EID: 79956151985     PISSN: 15299074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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