@article{eage:/content/journals/10.1144/petgeo.7.S.S105, author = "King, P. R. and Buldyrev, S. V. and Dokholyan, N. V. and Havlin, S. and Lee, Y. and Paul, G. and Stanley, H. E. and Vandesteeg, N.", title = "Predicting oil recovery using percolation theory", journal= "Petroleum Geoscience", year = "2001", volume = "7", number = "S", pages = "S105-S107", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo.7.S.S105", url = "https://www.earthdoc.org/content/journals/10.1144/petgeo.7.S.S105", publisher = "European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers", issn = "1354-0793", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "percolation", keywords = "breakthrough", keywords = "geostatistical analysis", 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.", }