Low salinity water flooding: Proof of wettability alteration on a field wide scale

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 200-209

  Vledder, Paul ^a   Fonseca, Julio Carrera ^a   Wells, Terence ^a   Gonzalez, Ivan ^a   Ligthelm, Dick ^b  

^a Al Furat Petroleum Company   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD OBSERVATIONS; IN-BETWEEN; IN-CORE; LOG-INJECT-LOG TESTS; LOW-SALINITY WATER; OIL RECOVERIES; PORE WALL; REMAINING OIL SATURATIONS; ROCK SURFACES; SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS; SINGLE WELL; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; WATER-WET SYSTEMS; WATERCUT; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

COREMAKING; DESORPTION; HEAVY WATER; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RECOVERY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WATER INJECTION; WELL LOGGING;

OIL WELLS;

EID: 77954269432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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