Experimental and simulation of CO2-foam flooding in fractured chalk rock at reservoir conditions: Effect of mode of injection on oil recovery

SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2010, OGWA - EOR Challenges, Experiences and Opportunities in the Middle East

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 541-553

  John, Zuta ^a   Ingebret, Fjelde ^a   Roman, Berenblyum ^a  

^a International Research Institute   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR SIMULATORS; COREFLOOD; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; FIELD SCALE; FIELD TRIAL; FOAMING AGENT; FRACTURED CHALK; GLASS BEAD; HIGH PERMEABILITY; INJECTED FLUIDS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY TEST; LOW MATRIX PERMEABILITY; MACROSCOPIC SWEEP; MATRIX; MATRIX BLOCKS; MISCIBLE GAS INJECTION; OIL RECOVERIES; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; WATERFLOODING;

ADSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RECOVERY; WATER INJECTION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 77957944439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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