Simultaneous estimation of relative permeability and capillary pressure for tight formations from displacement experiments

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2012, CURC 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 824-836

  Zhang, Yin ^a   Song, Chengyao ^a   Zheng, Sixu ^a   Yang, Daoyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); RESOURCE VALUATION;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; CONVENTIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS; MEASUREMENT DATA; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875666337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/162663-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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