The effect of salinity of injection brine on water alternating gas performance in tertiary miscible carbon dioxide flooding: Experimental study

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 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 98-107

  Jiang, Haifeng ^a   Nuryaningsih, Lily ^a   Adidharma, Hertanto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Miscible flooding; Salinity; Tertiary mode; Water Alternating Gas (WAG)

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CRUDE OIL; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; GAS OILS; PARAFFINS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE FLOODING; CONTINUOUS GAS INJECTIONS; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; MISCIBLE FLOODING; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; SALINITY; TERTIARY MODE; WATER ALTERNATING GAS;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 77958510020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/132369-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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