Optimized surfactant IFT and polymer viscosity for surfactant-polymer flooding in heterogeneous formations

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 12-22

  Wang, Yefei ^a   Zhao, Fulin ^a   Bai, Baojun ^b   Zhang, Jian ^c   Xiang, Wentao ^c   Li, Xianjie ^c   Zhou, Wei ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c China National Offshore Oil Cooperation   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; CORE FLOODING TEST; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS MODELS; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; OIL RECOVERIES; POLYMER FLOODING; POLYMER VISCOSITY; SCALE FORMATION;

OIL WELL FLOODING; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERS; RECOVERY; VISCOSITY;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 77954283478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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