Mechanistic interpretation and utilization of viscoelastic behavior of polymer solutions for improved polymer-flood efficiency

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1051-1065

  Delshad, Mojdeh ^a   Kim, Do Hoon ^a   Magbagbeola, Oluwaseun A ^a   Huh, Chun ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a   Tarahhom, Farhad ^b  

^a SPE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELASTICITY; FLOODS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OIL FIELDS; POROUS MATERIALS; RELAXATION TIME; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR THINNING; SOLUTION MINING; ULTRASONIC RELAXATION; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; MECHANISTIC INTERPRETATIONS; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED POLYACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SHEAR-THICKENING BEHAVIOR; VISCO-ELASTIC BEHAVIORS; VISCO-ELASTIC CHARACTERISTICS;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 55349114746     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/113620-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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