The influence of capillary pressure when determining relative permeability from unsteady-state corefloods

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1992-March, Issue , 1992, Pages 265-274

  Savioli, G B ^a   Bidner, M S ^a   Grattoni, C A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; GASOLINE; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; RANDOM ERRORS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

AUTOMATIC HISTORY MATCHING; BROYDEN-FLETCHER-GOLDFARB-SHANNO; CAPILLARY PRESSURE CURVES; LEAST SQUARES PROBLEMS; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS;

CAPILLARY TUBES;

EID: 84888894651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/23698-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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