Effect of temperature on enhanced oil recovery from mixed-wet chalk cores by spontaneous imbibition and forced displacement using seawater

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3222-3225

  Strand, Skule ^a   Puntervold, Tina ^a   Austad, Tor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); SEAWATER; SEAWATER EFFECTS; SURFACE DIFFUSION; SURFACE REACTIONS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

ACTIVE IONS; CHALK CORES; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FORCED DISPLACEMENT; FORMATION WATER; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 53849093782     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef800244v     Document Type: Article

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