Estimation of Foam Mobility in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 561-574

  Kovscek, A R ^a   Bertin, H J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONTAMINATION; FOAMS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PHASE COMPOSITION; PORE SIZE; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FOAMER SOLUTIONS; GAS MOBILITY;

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 1642435376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/75181-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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