Production modeling in the eagle ford gas condensate window: Integrating new relationships between core permeability, pore size, and confined PVT properties

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North America and Rocky Mountain Joint Conference and Exhibition 2014

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 49-68

  Sanaei, Alireza ^a   Jamili, Ahmad ^a   Callard, Jeffrey ^a   Mathur, Ashish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; ENGINEERS; FRACTURE; GAS CONDENSATES; GASES; GASOLINE; MOLECULES; NANOPORES; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHASE BEHAVIOR; SHALE GAS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CONDENSATE PRODUCTION; GAS CONDENSATE RESERVOIRS; MERCURY INJECTION CAPILLARY PRESSURES; MOLECULE-MOLECULE INTERACTIONS; NANO-SCALE CONFINEMENTS; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; PERMEABILITY IMPAIRMENTS; SPECIFIC PERMEABILITY;

PORE SIZE;

EID: 84907066908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/169493-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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