Experimental investigation of secondary and tertiary gas injection in fractured carbonate rock

69th European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2007: Securing The Future. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1252-1259

  Karimaie, H ^a   Darvish, G R ^b   Lindeberg, E ^c   Torsaeter, O ^a  

^a SPE NTNU ^*

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; CARBONATES; EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; GASES; NITROGEN; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PLASMAS; ROCKS; SEALANTS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; WATER INJECTION; WELL FLOODING;

BUBBLE POINTS; COMBINED EFFECTS; ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS; ELEVATED PRESSURES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP; FRACTURED CARBONATE ROCKS; FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; FUNCTION OF TIMES; GAS INJECTIONS; GRAVITY DRAINAGES; HIGH PRESSURE HIGH TEMPERATURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIVE OILS; MATRIX BLOCKS; NITROGEN GASSES; NITROGEN INJECTIONS; NORTH SEAS; OIL RECOVERIES; RESERVOIR ROCKS; SEALING MATERIALS;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 55549144333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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