Emulsion flooding of heavy oil

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1204-1216

  Kumar, R ^a   Dao, E ^a   Mohanty, K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FLOODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; OSTWALD RIPENING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SODIUM CARBONATE; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VISCOSITY;

BEHAVIOR EXPERIMENTS; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; HYDROPHILIC SURFACTANTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; SHEAR DEPENDENCES; SURFACTANT FLOODS;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 77954201006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/129914-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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