A streamline-based predictive model for enhanced-oil-recovery potentiality* * Project supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 Program Grant No. G19990225).

Journal of Hydrodynamics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 314-322

  HOU, Jian ^a   ZHANG, Shun kang ^a   DU, Qing jun ^a   LI, Yu bin ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

boundary element method; chemical flooding; CO2 miscible flooding; Enhanced Oil Recovery(EOR); microbial flooding; streamline method

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS; RECOVERY; TERTIARY RECOVERY; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELLS;

(E ,2E) THEORY; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; CALCULATION TIME; DYNAMIC CALCULATIONS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (EOR); FLOW THROUGH; GOOD STABILITY; INJECTION WELLS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; POROUS MEDIUMS; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; STREAM LINE METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3 D) MODELING; WELL PATTERNS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 46049085991     PISSN: 10016058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-6058(08)60063-3     Document Type: Article

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