Developments in measurement and interpretation techniques in coreflood tests to determine relative permeabilities

SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1997-August, Issue , 1997, Pages

  Ali, J K ^a  

^a BG plc   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GASOLINE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY CURVES; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODEL; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; VISCOUS INSTABILITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 84938727102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/39016-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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