Simulation of natural and partitioning interwell tracers to calculate saturation and swept volumes in oil reservoirs

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2004-April, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sinha, R ^a   Asakawa, K ^a   Pope, G A ^a   Sepehrnoori, K ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOD OF MOMENTS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY;

DUAL-POROSITY RESERVOIRS; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; NATURAL PARTITIONING; PARTITIONING TRACERS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; TRACER CONCENTRATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 85001753432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/89458-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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