Understanding tortuosity and permeability variations in naturally fractured reservoirs: Niobrara formation

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tokan Lawal, Adenike ^a   Prodanović, Masa ^b   Landry, Christopher J ^a   Eichhubl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CAPILLARY TUBES; CEMENTING (SHAFTS); CEMENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; END EFFECTORS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESOURCE VALUATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WETTING;

DISTRIBUTED APERTURES; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN SIMULATIONS; LOW MATRIX PERMEABILITY; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; PREFERENTIAL PATHWAYS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84959185651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.15530/urtec-2014-1922870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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