Residual gas saturation revisited

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/CERI Gas Technology Symposium 2000, GTS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Kantzas, Apostolos ^a,b   Ding, Minghua ^b   Lee, Jong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b TIPM Laboratory   (Canada)

^c PETRO CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WATER LEVELS; WETTING;

CORE CLEANINGS; GAS DISPLACEMENT; GAS PRODUCTIONS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; RESIDUAL GAS SATURATION; SATURATED ZONE; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; WETTING CONDITIONS;

GASES;

EID: 85086689411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/59782-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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