High-mobility-ratio-waterflood performance prediction: Challenges and new insights

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 186-196

  Kumar, Mridul ^a   Hoang, Viet ^a   Satik, Cengiz ^a   Rojas, Danny ^a,b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED RECOVERY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; VISCOSITY;

HIGH-MOBILITY-RATIO WATERFLOODS; VISCOSITY RATIO; WATER-INJECTION FIELD;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; VISCOSITY;

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR FLOODING; VISCOSITY;

EID: 41349089550     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/97671-pa     Document Type: Article

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