Propagation of viscoelastic surfactant-based acids in carbonate cores

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 849-864

  Al Ghamdi, Abdulwahab H ^a   Mahmoud, Mohamed A ^a   Hill, A D ^a   Nasr El Din, Hisham A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D IMAGE; ACID CONCENTRATIONS; ACID SOLUTIONS; ACIDIZING; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CARBONATE CORES; CONVENTIONAL ACIDS; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; KEY PARAMETERS; MINERAL COMPOSITION; ROCK TYPES; SHORT CORE; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; VISCOELASTIC SURFACTANTS;

ACIDIZATION; CALCIUM; CARBONATE MINERALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; LITHOLOGY; OIL FIELDS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WELL STIMULATION;

ACIDS;

EID: 70449668959     PISSN: 10461779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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