Mature Waterfloods Renew Oil Production by Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flooding

SPE Eastern Regional Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 127-133

  Wyatt, Kon ^a   Pitts, Malcolm J ^a   Surkalo, Harry ^a  

^a Surtek Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL SATURATION; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATION;

CAPILLARITY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL FIELDS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WETTING;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 1842537050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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