When do surfactant-based acids work as diverting agents?

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Formation Damage Control

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 925-939

  Al Ghamdi, A H ^a   Mahmoud, M A ^a   Hill, A D ^a   Nasr El Din, H A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CARBONATE RESERVOIR; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; INITIAL PERMEABILITY; INJECTION RATES; MATRIX STIMULATION; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; SELF-DIVERTING ACIDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77954231894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/128074-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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