Experimental study of foam flow in fractured oil-wet limestone for enhanced oil recovery

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 653-662

  Haugen, A ^a   Ferno M A ^a   Graue, A ^a   Bertin, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b University Bordeaux I2M UMR CNRS 5295   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-INJECTION; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOAM FLOW; FOAM GENERATION; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; GAS INJECTION; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; IN-SITU; INJECTION SCHEMES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MATRIX; OIL RECOVERIES; PORE VOLUME; TRANSMISSIVITY;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; FRACTURE; GASES; LIMESTONE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 77954307707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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