Experiments to investigate steam injection in light oil fractured carbonates

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 895-904

  Verlaan, Marco ^a   Boerrigter, Paul ^a,b   Oedai, Sjaam ^a   Van Dorp, Johan ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b Shell Development Oman LLC   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DISTILLATION; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GASES; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HEATING; HYDROCARBONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); STEAM; STRIPPING (DYES); THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMAL SPRAYING; VISCOSITY;

AND RECOVERIES; CAPILLARY IMBIBITIONS; CRUDE OILS; DISPLACEMENT METHODS; DISTILLATION PROCESSES; DRAINAGE RATES; EOR METHODS; FRACTURED CARBONATES; FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; GRAVITY DRAINAGES; HYDROCARBON COMPONENTS; INITIAL WATER SATURATIONS; LABORATORY STUDIES; LIGHT OILS; LOW GRAVITIES; LOW PERMEABILITIES; OIL RATES; OIL RECOVERIES; PHYSICAL MECHANISMS; PRODUCTION RATES; PVT MEASUREMENTS; RECOVERY MECHANISMS; REMAINING OIL SATURATIONS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESERVOIR CORES; RESERVOIR ROCKS; SOLUTION GAS DRIVES; STEAM INJECTIONS; STEAM STRIPPING; STEAM TEMPERATURES; VISCOSITY REDUCTIONS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 55249095609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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