Foam Generation in Porous Media

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 508-522

  Gauglitz, P A ^a   Friedmann, F ^b   Kam, S I ^c   Rossen, W R ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOW OF FLUIDS; FOAMS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NATURAL GAS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEXTURES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

FOAM GENERATION; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY (IOR);

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 1642435381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/75177-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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