Fluid-phase behaviour for a miscible-gas-injection EOR project in a giant offshore oil field with large compositional variations

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2773-2793

  Lindeloff, N ^a   Mogensen, K ^a   Van Lingen, P ^a   Do, S H ^a   Frank, S ^a   Oil, Maersk ^b   Noman, R ^b  

^a Atlas Wireline Services

^b QATAR PETROLEUM   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK OIL; COMPLEX FLUID SYSTEMS; COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIRS; COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATIONS; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATIONS; EOR METHODS; EQUATION OF STATE; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS; FIELD DEVELOPMENT; FLUID PHASE BEHAVIORS; FLUID PROPERTIES; FLUID-PHASE; GAS INJECTIONS; IMMISCIBLE GAS INJECTIONS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; MISCIBILITY BEHAVIORS; OFFSHORE OIL; OIL GRAVITIES; SATURATION PRESSURES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); ENHANCED RECOVERY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PHASE BEHAVIOR; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SOLAR RADIATION; WATER INJECTION;

OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 58849091460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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