Quantitative analysis of reaction-rate retardation in surfactant-based acids

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 107-116

  Nasr El Din, Hisham A ^a,b   Al Mohammad, Abdullah M ^a   Al Aamri, Ali D ^a   Al Fahad, Mossaed Abdulhamid ^a   Chang, Frank F ^c  

^a EXPEC Advanced Research Center ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIZATION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CALCITE; CARBONATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIFFUSION; DISSOLUTION; LIME; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; REACTION RATES; ROTATING DISKS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ACID FRACTURING TREATMENTS; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; FRACTURE ACIDIZING; FRACTURE SURFACES; STIMULATION PROCESS; VISCOELASTIC SURFACTANTS; WELL PRODUCTIVITY;

FRACTURE;

ACID; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE ROCK; DESIGN; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION RATE; SURFACTANT;

EID: 62649157942     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/107451-pa     Document Type: Article

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