A designer water process for offshore low salinity and polymer flooding applications

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1255-1266

  Ayirala, Subhash ^a   Ernesto, Uehara Nagamine ^a   Matzakos, Andreas ^a   Chin, Robert ^a   Doe, Peter ^a   Van Den Hoek, Paul ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE EFFECTS; CHEMICAL COSTS; CLAY TYPE; COST SAVING; CRITICAL ISSUES; DIRECT INJECTION; EOR METHODS; FACILITY ENGINEERING; FRESH WATER; HARDNESS REMOVAL; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; INJECTION WATER; INJECTION WATER QUALITY; LOW SALINITY; LOW-SALINITY WATER; OFFSHORE ENVIRONMENTS; OIL INDUSTRIES; OIL RECOVERIES; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; POLYMER FACILITIES; POLYMER FLOODING; REMAINING OIL SATURATIONS; SEAWATER DESALINATION; SELECTED EXAMPLES; TIME FRAME; UNIT TECHNICAL COSTS; WATER DESALINATION; WATER FLOOD; WATER PROCESS; WATER STREAMS;

DESALINATION; DESIGN; FLOCCULATION; OPERATING COSTS; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RECOVERY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; VISCOSITY; WATER FILTRATION; WATER INJECTION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 77954188555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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