Fluid flow in relay zones revisited: Towards an improved representation of small-scale structural heterogeneities in flow models

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2013, Pages 144-164

  Fachri, Muhammad ^a,b   Rotevatn, Atle ^a,b   Tveranger, Jan ^a  

^a Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research (Uni CIPR)   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

AFP; Damage zone; Deformation band; Fault; Fault facies; Kdb (in relation to models or cases); Reservoir modelling; Reservoir simulation; Sweep efficiency; TGS; TWBT; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

AFP; DAMAGE ZONES; DEFORMATION BAND; RESERVOIR MODELLING; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; TGS; TWBT; UPSCALING;

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DEFORMATION; FACIES; FAULT ZONE; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HOST ROCK; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84880378335     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.05.016     Document Type: Article

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