Snorre low salinity water injection - Core flooding experiments and single well field pilot

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 957-969

  Skrettingland, K ^a   Holt, T ^b   Tweheyo, M T ^a   Skjevrak, I ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; COREMAKING; FLOODS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); OIL WELL TESTING; OIL WELLS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEAWATER; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; LOW-PRESSURE CONDITIONS; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; REMAINING OIL SATURATIONS; SANDSTONE FORMATIONS; SEA WATER INJECTIONS; SINGLE WELL CHEMICAL TRACER TESTS; WETTING CONDITIONS;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 77954200233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/129877-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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