Mitigating oil bypassed in fractured cores during CO2 flooding using WAG and polymer gel injections

SPE - DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 105-115

  Chakravarthy, D ^a   Muralidaharan, V ^a   Putra, E ^b   Hidayati, D T ^a   Schechter, D S ^c  

^a Oxy USA ^*

^b Kinder Morgan CO2 Co LP   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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