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Predicting oil recovery using percolation theory
- Source: Petroleum Geoscience, Volume 7, Issue S, Mar 2001, p. S105 - S107
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- 23 Nov 1999
- 21 Aug 2000
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Abstract
In this paper we apply scaling laws from percolation theory to the problem of estimating the time for a fluid injected into an oil field to breakthrough into a production well. The main contribution is to show that, when these previously published results are used on realistic data, they are in good agreement with results calculated in a more conventional way but they can be obtained significantly more quickly. As a result they may be used in practical engineering circumstances and aid decision-making for real field problems.