A systematic laboratory approach to low-cost, high-performance chemical flooding

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 915-934

  Flaaten, Adam K ^a   Nguyen, Quoc P ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a   Zhang, Jieyuan ^b  

^a SPE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FLOODS; MICROEMULSIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SALINE WATER; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL FORMULATION; CORE FLOOD EXPERIMENTS; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; INTERNAL OLEFIN SULFONATES; PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; STANDARD PRACTICES; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 55249122730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/113469-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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