Polymer flooding - Flow properties in porous media versus rheological parameters

72nd European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Conference and Exhibition 2010: A New Spring for Geoscience. Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2010

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 3292-3306

  Stavland, A ^a   Jonsbraten H C ^a   Lohne, A ^a   Moen, A ^b   Giske, N H ^b  

^a IRIS   (Ireland)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION; FLOODS; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS; RELAXATION TIME; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR THINNING;

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; CORE FLOOD EXPERIMENTS; CRITICAL SHEAR RATES; DEGREE OF HYDROLYSIS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEWTONIAN VISCOSITY; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; RHEOLOGICAL PARAMETER;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 78249238496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/131103-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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