Using co-solvents to provide gradients and improve oil recovery during chemical flooding in a light oil reservoir

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1292-1303

  Dwarakanath, V ^a   Chaturvedi, T ^a   Jackson, A C ^a   Malik, T ^a   Siregar, A ^a   Zhao, P ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTES; FLOODS; MICROEMULSIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHASE BEHAVIOR; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL FLOODING; IMPROVE OIL RECOVERY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT OIL RESERVOIRS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; SALINITY GRADIENTS; SURFACTANT PHASE BEHAVIOR; ULTRALOW INTERFACIAL TENSION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 55149106846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/113965-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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