"Smart Water" for oil recovery from fractured limestone: A preliminary study

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3126-3133

  Strand, Skule ^a   Austad, Tor ^a   Puntervold, Tina ^a   Høgnesen, Eli J ^a   Olsen, Martin ^a   Barstad, Sven Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEAWATER; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

CHEMICAL MECHANISMS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FRACTURED CHALK; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL RESERVOIRS; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 53849123672     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef800062n     Document Type: Article

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