Oil recovery by near-miscible SWAG injection

67th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE Conference and Exhibition, incorporating SPE EUROPE2005 - Extended Abstracts

Volumn 67th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2005: The Challenge of Discovery. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 849-860

  Sohrabi, M ^a   Danesh, A ^a   Tehrani, D H ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC FLUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE TENSION;

LOW GAS-OIL INTERFACIAL TENSION (IFT); PORE-SCALE DISPLACEMENT MECHANISMS; SWAG INJECTION; WAG;

INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

EID: 33645115372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/94073-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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