An experimental study of secondary oil migration in a three-dimensional tilted porous medium

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 773-788

  Yan, Jianzhao ^a   Luo, Xiaorong ^a   Wang, Weimin ^b   Toussaint, Renaud ^c   Schmittbuhl, Jean ^c   Vasseur, Guy ^d   Chen, Fang ^e   Yu, Alan ^f   Zhang, Likuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^f Geoscience Specialist Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORE SIZE;

CYLINDRICAL SHAPES; IMBIBITION PROCESS; LATERAL MIGRATION; MIGRATION PATHWAY; MIGRATION PROCESS; OIL MIGRATION PATHWAYS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BUOYANCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; IMBIBITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION;

EID: 84861595561     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/09091110140     Document Type: Article

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