Interpretation and correlations of clay swelling measurements

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Mid-Continent Operations Symposium 1999, MCOS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Civan, Faruk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POROSITY; RATE CONSTANTS; ROCKS;

CLAY SWELLING; EXPOSED SURFACES; HINDERED DIFFUSION; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; POROUS ROCKS; SATURATION LIMITS; SWELLING RATE CONSTANT; WATER ABSORPTION RATES;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 85084007801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/52134-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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