Foam modeling in heterogeneous reservoirs using stochastic bubble population approach

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 578-596

  Farshbaf Zinati, F ^a   Farajzadeh, R ^a   Zitha, P L J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; LIQUIDS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOLIDS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; WATER INJECTION;

COMPLEX POWERS; CROSS FLOWS; FOAM INJECTIONS; GAS INJECTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; HIGH PERMEABILITIES; ISOLATED LAYERS; LOW PERMEABILITIES; OIL RECOVERIES; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; STOCHASTIC BUBBLE POPULATIONS; SWEEP EFFICIENCIES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 55249126004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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