Evaluation of Chemical Flood Potential for Mangala Field, Rajasthan, India-Laboratory Experiment Design and Results

International Petroleum Technology Conference, IPTC 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2225-2234

  Pandey, A ^a   Beliveau, D ^a   Kumar, M Suresh ^a   Pitts, M J ^b   Surtek, J Qi ^b  

^a Cairn India Limited   (India)

^b Chevron Pacific Indonesia   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION MEASUREMENT; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; CHEMICAL FLOODS; CHEMICAL FORMULATION; CHEMICAL RETENTION; CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS; CLASTIC RESERVOIRS; COREFLOOD; EVALUATION PROCESS; HIGH QUALITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY STUDIES; MOBILITY RATIOS; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL RECOVERIES; PHASE BEHAVIOUR; PILOT TESTS; POLYMER RHEOLOGY; RAJASTHAN , INDIA; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; THERMAL STABILITY STUDIES; WATER FLOOD; WATER PRODUCTION;

ADSORPTION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; HYDROCARBONS; LABORATORIES; OIL WELL FLOODING; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WELL STIMULATION;

ALKALINITY;

EID: 67650563489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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