Polymer flood modeling using streamlines - Part 1

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 1502-1511

  Thiele, M R ^a   Batycky, R P ^b   Pollitzer S ^c   Clemens, T ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Streamsim Technologies   (United States)

^c OMV E and P ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D STREAMLINES; COARSE GRIDS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DISPLACEMENT EFFICIENCIES; EULERIAN; EULERIAN GRIDS; FIELD-SCALE; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FLOOD MODELING; FLUID PROPERTIES; IN-SITU; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LAGRANGIAN; NON-UNIFORM; NUMERICAL - TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELING; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; POLYMER FLOODING; RESERVOIR ARCHITECTURES; RESERVOIR ENGINEERINGS; RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITIES; STEADY-STATE MODELS; STREAMLINE SIMULATIONS; SWEEP EFFICIENCIES; WATER VISCOSITIES;

ADSORPTION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; FLOODS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMERS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SIMULATORS; SOLAR RADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 58849085650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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