Low salinity brine injection for EOR on alaska north slope (ans)

International Petroleum Technology Conference, IPTC 2008

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 541-549

  Patil, Shivkumar ^a   Abhijit, ^a   Dandekar, ^a   Patil, Shirish L ^a   Khataniar, Santanu ^b  

^a SPE ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINE INJECTION; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; FORMATION FLUIDS; GENERAL TRENDS; LAKE WATERS; LOW SALINITY; LOW-SALINITY WATER; OIL RECOVERIES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RESERVOIR BRINE; RESERVOIR ROCK; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; WATER FLOOD; WETTABILITY INDEX;

LITHOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SECONDARY RECOVERY; WELL STIMULATION;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 67650545444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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