Inaccessible pore volume of associative polymer floods

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1189-1203

  Pancharoen, M ^a   Thiele, M R ^b   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a Streamsim ^*

^b Streamsim   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EFFLUENTS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; POLYMER FORMULATION; SUPERPOSITION MODEL; TERTIARY OIL RECOVERY; WATERSOLUBLE POLYMERS;

SECONDARY RECOVERY;

EID: 77954190777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/129910-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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