WAG injection to reduce capillary entrapment in small-scale heterogeneities

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 771-777

  Lingen, P P Van ^a   Barzanji, O H M ^a   Kruijsdijk, J W Van ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; CAPILLARITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WETTING;

DISPLACEMENT EFFICIENCY; DISPLACEMENT METHOD; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY; SCALED MODELS; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; WATER ALTERNATE GAS;

WATER INJECTION; INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

CAPILLARY ENTRAPMENT; SIMULTANEOUS WATER AND GAS INJECTION; WATER ALTERNATE GAS INJECTION;

EID: 0029765980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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