Creation of a dual-porosity micromodel for pore-level visualization of multiphase flow

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 86-87, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-38

  Buchgraber, M ^a   Al Dossary, M ^a   Ross, C M ^a   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Flow visualization; Micromodel; Pore level; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

BACK-SCATTERED; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; DESATURATION; DISPLACEMENT MECHANISMS; DUAL-POROSITY; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; GLASS COVERS; HIGH POROSITY; IDENTICAL CONDITIONS; MERCURY INJECTION; MICROMODEL; MICROMODELS; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PORE NETWORKS; PORE SYSTEM; PORE-LEVEL; PORE-LEVEL MECHANISMS; RECOVERY FACTORS; THIN SECTION; VISUAL EXAMINATION;

CARBONATES; CARBONATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MERCURY (METAL); MICROELECTRONICS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON WAFERS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CARBONATE ROCK; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RESERVOIR ROCK; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84860326021     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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