Laboratory determination of effective liquid permeability in low-quality reservoir rocks by the pulse decay technique

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE California Regional Meeting, CRM 1986

Volumn , Issue , 1986, Pages 493-502

  Amaefule, J O ^a   Wolfe, K ^a   Walls, J D ^a   Ajufo, A O ^a   Peterson, E ^a  

^a Litton Petrophysical Services ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY OF LIQUIDS; GAS PERMEABILITY; LIQUIDS; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; ROCKS; TIGHT GAS;

COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; LABORATORY DETERMINATIONS; RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; VERY LOW PERMEABILITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 85058802171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/15149-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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