Improved Measurement of Gas Diffusivity for Miscible Gas Flooding under Nonequilibrium vs. Equilibrium Conditions

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 126-143

  Civan, Faruk ^a   Rasmussen, Maurice L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINES; DIFFUSION IN GASES; DISSOLUTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

DRILLING MUDS; MISCIBLE GAS FLOODING;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 1642435458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/75135-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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