Effect of elasticity during viscoelastic polymer flooding: A possible mechanism of increasing the sweep efficiency

Society of Petroleum Engineers Western North American Regional Meeting 2010 - In Collaboration with the Joint Meetings of the Pacific Section AAPG and Cordilleran Section GSA

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 747-758

  Urbissinova, Tolkynay S ^a   Trivedi, Japan ^a   Kuru, Ergun ^b  

^a SPE ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEIONIZED WATER; EFFICIENCY; ELASTICITY; FLOODS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIAL FLOW; SHEAR VISCOSITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; DISPLACEMENT EFFICIENCY; ELASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIAS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDE (PEO); POLYMER-BASED FLUIDS; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; VISCOELASTIC POLYMERS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 77958507450     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/133471-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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