CT study of liquid diversion with foam

SPE Production and Operations Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 125-140

  Nguyen, Q P ^a,b   Zitha, P L J ^a   Currie, P K ^a   Rossen, W R ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT PATTERNS; LIQUID DIVERSION; LIQUID MOBILITY; MOBILE GAS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FOAM CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 27744460586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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