Investigation of immiscible and miscible foam for enhancing oil recovery

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1910-1919

  Farajzadeh, R ^a,b   Andrianov, A ^a   Zitha, P L J ^a,b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA-OLEFINS; CRITICAL POINTS; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FOAM STABILITY; FOAMING AGENT; GAS INJECTION; OIL BANKS; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL RESERVOIRS; PARTIALLY SATURATED; PORE VOLUME; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE PROFILES; PURE GAS; SANDSTONE CORES; SUB-CRITICAL CONDITION; SUPER-CRITICAL; SUPERCRITICAL CO; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; WATERFLOODING; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; EXPERIMENTS; OLEFINS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER INJECTION;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 77649121195     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901109d     Document Type: Article

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