Reaction of gelled acids with calcite

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 353-361

  Nasr El Din, Hisham A ^a   Al Mohammad, Abdullah M ^b   Al Aamri, Ali D ^b   Al Fuwaires, Omar A ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXPEC Advanced Research Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; ETCHING; FRACTURE; GELATION; MASS TRANSFER; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; POLYMERS; SURFACE REACTIONS; VISCOSITY;

ACID FRACTURING TREATMENTS; ACID-SOLUBLE POLYMERS; APPARENT VISCOSITY; BROOKFIELD VISCOMETERS; CARBONATE FORMATIONS; DISK ROTATIONAL SPEED; FRACTURING TREATMENTS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS;

ROTATING DISKS;

CALCITE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; MATRIX; POLYMER; REACTION RATE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 52149089060     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/103979-pa     Document Type: Article

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