Foam assisted enhanced oil recovery at miscible and immiscible conditions

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Kuwait International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition, KIPCE 2009: Meeting Energy Demand for Long Term Economic Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 114-125

  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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; EXPERIMENTS; OLEFINS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 77952002765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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