Spontaneous imbibition is an area of significant interest to the petroleum industry due to its
large contribution to oil production in mature and fractured fields. This work discusses the …

Hydrocarbon production, gas recovery from shale, CO2 storage and water management
have a common scientific underpinning: multiphase flow in porous media. This book …

Natural gas from tight shale formations will provide the United States with a major source of
energy over the next several decades. Estimates of gas production from these formations …

The introduction reviews topics relevant to the fundamental controls on fluid flow in
carbonate reservoirs and to the prediction of reservoir performance. The review provides …

致密油藏体积改造压后闷井过程中发生的渗吸置换, 通常在压差(基质外部流体压力与孔隙压力
之差) 作用下进行, 但渗吸置换物理模拟却通常在常压下进行(即自发渗吸) …

Imbibition is very common, occurring in life, material, chemistry, and energy. It plays an
important role in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The development of many reservoirs is …

Hypothesis The wetting behaviour is a key property of a porous medium that controls
hydraulic conductivity in multiphase flow. While many porous materials, such as …

Spontaneous imbibition is a very important mechanism for the mass transfer between
fracture and matrix in shale and tight reservoirs. To enhance this spontaneous imbibition …

Abstract Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (NFR's) have received little attention as potential
CO2 storage sites. Two main facts deter from storage projects in fractured reservoirs:(1) CO2 …

We present analytical solutions for capillary-controlled displacement in one dimension by
use of fractional-flow theory. We show how to construct solutions with a spreadsheet that can …