Sweep improvement options for the daging oil field

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 210-222

  Wang, D ^a   Han, P ^a   Shao, Z ^a   Chen, J ^a   Seright, R S ^b  

^a DAQING OILFIELD CO LTD   (China)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION GELS; INJECTIVITY INDEX; LOW-MOBILITY CHEMICAL; POLYMER DEGRADATION; POLYMER SOLUTIONS;

BOREHOLES; COLLOIDS; DEGRADATION; DISPERSIONS; FOAMS; GELS; OIL FIELDS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33745700227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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