ASP chemical flooding without the need for soft water

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 4801-4815

  Flaaten, Adam K ^a   Nguyen, Quoc P ^a   Zhang, Jieyuan ^a   Mohammadi, Hourshad ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATION; CRUDE OIL; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; HARDNESS; MICROEMULSIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POSITIVE IONS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SALINE WATER; SODIUM BORATE; SODIUM CARBONATE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; BEHAVIOR EXPERIMENTS; CALCIUM CARBONATE PRECIPITATES; CHEMICAL FORMULATION; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SURFACTANT FORMULATION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 58849134982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/116754-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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