Water shut-off in a fractured system using a robust polymer gel

8th European Formation Damage Conference 2009 - New Technologies for Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1015-1022

  Simjoo, M ^a,b   Dadvand Koohi, A ^c   Vafaie Sefti, M ^a,b,c   Zitha, P L J ^a,b  

^a Atlas Wireline Services

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

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EID: 70449366472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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