A systematic study of Alkaline-Surfactant-Gas injection as an EOR technique

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 3020-3034

  Srivastava, Mayank ^b   Zhang, Jieyuan ^b   Nguyen, Quoc P ^b   Pope, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; CHEMICAL EOR; CHEMICAL SLUGS; CO-INJECTION; COREFLOOD; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; DISPLACEMENT EFFICIENCY; DOLOMITE ROCKS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FOAM GENERATION; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; GAS INJECTION; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; LOW PERMEABILITY; LOWER COST; MOBILITY CONTROL; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL-WATER; PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS; PRESSURE RESPONSE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; REMAINING OIL; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SYNERGIC EFFECTS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; THERMAL DEGRADATIONS; WATER FLOOD;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CEMENTS; DEGRADATION; EMULSIFICATION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTS; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; MICROEMULSIONS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POLYMERS; RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER INJECTION; WELL STIMULATION;

FOAM CONTROL;

EID: 77950789272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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