A systematic laboratory approach to low-cost high-performance chemical flooding

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 713-723

  Flaaten, Adam K ^a   Nguyen, Quoc P ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a   Zhang, Jieyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FLOODS; MICROEMULSIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SALINE WATER; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL FORMULATION; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; INTERNAL OLEFIN SULFONATES; PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; STANDARD PRACTICES; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

ADSORPTION; ALKALINITY; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FLOODING; LABORATORY METHOD; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SULFONATE; SURFACTANT;

EID: 71949094196     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/113469-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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