Simultaneous acid diversion and water control in carbonate reservoirs: A case history from Saudi Arabia

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 882-891

  Al Taq, Ali A ^a   Nasr El Din, Hisham A ^a,b   Beresky, Jimmy K ^a   Naimi, Khalid M ^a   Sierra, Leopoldo ^c   Eoff, Larry ^c  

^a Saudi Aramco   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; DOWNHOLE CONDITIONS; MATRIX ACID TREATMENT; PRODUCTION LOGGING TOOLS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; STIMULATION TREATMENTS;

ACIDIZATION;

CARBONATE ROCK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROCARBON TECHNOLOGY; POLYMER;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 57349110612     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/106951-pa     Document Type: Article

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