Which one is more important in chemical flooding for enhanced court heavy oil recovery, lowering interfacial tension or reducing water mobility?

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1829-1836

  Zhang, Haiyan ^a,b   Dong, Mingzhe ^b   Zhao, Suoqi ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; CHEMICAL FLOODING; HEAVY OIL RECOVERY; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; NAOH CONCENTRATION; OIL RECOVERIES; PHASE VISCOSITY; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; TERTIARY OIL RECOVERY; WATER MOBILITY; WATER PHASE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; HEAVY WATER; POLYMERS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TERTIARY RECOVERY; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY;

RECOVERY;

EID: 77950177338     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef901310v     Document Type: Article

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