Modeling permeability distributions in a sandstone core for history matching coreflood experiments

SPE Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 768-777

  Krause, M ^a   Perrin, J C ^a   Benson, S M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL STORAGE; GAS INDUSTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; POROSITY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SALINE WATER; SANDSTONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION; POROSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SATURATION DISTRIBUTION; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84855546171     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/126340-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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