A microbial enhanced oil recovery field pilot in a Brazilian onshore oilfield

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1274-1280

  Reksidler, Rodrigo ^a   Volpon, Antonia Garcia Torres ^a   Barbosa, Luiz Cesar Ferreira ^a   Brasileiro, Cláudio Guilherme ^a   Nicolau, Heitor Cesar Correia ^a   De Calasans Jr , José Augusto Mascarenhas ^a  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EOR METHODS; FIELD PILOT; FIELD TRIAL; HIGH PERMEABILITY ZONE; INJECTION WATER; INJECTIVITY; PRESSURE INCREASE; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; WATER INJECTION WELLS;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); RECOVERY; WATER INJECTION; WELLS;

OIL FIELDS;

EID: 77954210283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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