Chemical flooding of fractured carbonates using wettability modifiers

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 609-627

  Najafabadi, Nariman Fathi ^a   Delshad, Mojdeh ^a   Sepehrnoori, Kamy ^a   Nguyen, Quoc P ^a   Zhang, Jieyuan ^b  

^a SPE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELECTROLYTES; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; FRACTURE; MIXTURES; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WETTING;

CHEMICAL STIMULATION; DEMONSTRATION PROJECT; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FRACTURED CARBONATE RESERVOIRS; GEOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITIES; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; SEQUENTIAL INJECTION; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 55249103694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/113369-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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