Mechanistic modeling of chemical transport in naturally fractured oil reservoirs

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 294-309

  Abbasi Asl, Yousef ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a   Delshad, Mojdeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY IMBIBITION; CAPILLARY PRESSURES; CHEMICAL PROCESS; CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT; COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATORS; EFFECT OF PRESSURE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FRACTURE PROPERTY; FRACTURED OIL RESERVOIRS; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; HIGH CONTRAST; INJECTED FLUIDS; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MATRIX; MATRIX BLOCKS; MECHANISTIC MODELING; OIL RECOVERIES; POLYMER FLOODING; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRANSVERSE PRESSURE;

ALKALINITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FRACTURE; MICROEMULSIONS; OIL WELL FLOODING; PACKED BEDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POLYMERS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 77954271882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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