Waterflooding viscous oil reservoirs

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 689-701

  Beliveau, Dennis ^a  

^a Cairn India Limited   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; VISCOSITY;

ANALOG PERFORMANCE; DEVELOPMENT PLANS; HISTORY MATCH; LONG TERM PRODUCTION; RAJASTHAN , INDIA; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; WAX APPEARANCE TEMPERATURE; WAX DEPOSITION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

BENCHMARKING; DATABASE; FLOODING; HYDROCARBON; OIL FIELD; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL PERIOD; VISCOSITY;

BARMER BASIN; CANADA; INDIA; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 71949114132     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/113132-PA     Document Type: Conference Paper

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