Experimental Investigation of Matrix Wettability Effects on Water Imbibition in Fractured Artificial Porous Media

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 86-87, Issue , 2012, Pages 165-171

  Rezaveisi, Mohsen ^a,d   Ayatollahi, Shahab ^a,b   Rostami, Behzad ^c  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Bond number; Capillary imbibition; Fractured media; Wettability

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POROUS MEDIA; BOND NUMBERS; CAPILLARY IMBIBITION; CHEMICAL TREATMENTS; DENSITY DIFFERENCE; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; FRACTURED MEDIA; FRACTURED OIL RESERVOIRS; GLASS BEAD; GRAIN TYPES; GRAVITY FORCES; MATRIX BLOCKS; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; OIL VISCOSITY; OIL-PRODUCTION RATES; PHASE PROPERTIES; POROUS MEDIUM; SYNTHETIC OIL; WATER IMBIBITION; WETTING CHARACTERISTICS; WETTING PROPERTY;

GRAVITATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WETTING;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CAPILLARITY; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAIN SIZE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; IMBIBITION; INVERSE PROBLEM; POROUS MEDIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VISCOSITY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84860275454     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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