Analysis and correlations of viscous fingering in low-tension polymer flooding in heavy oil reservoirs

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6384-6392

  Yadali Jamaloei, Benyamin ^a,b   Kharrat, Riyaz ^b   Torabi, Farshid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LEVELS; DYNAMIC POPULATION; FIELD PATTERNS; FINGERING PATTERNS; FIVE-SPOT; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; HIGH PERMEABILITY; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; LINEAR DISPLACEMENTS; LOW PERMEABILITY; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL SATURATION; POLYMER FLOODING; SATURATION PROFILES; SQUARE ROOTS; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; THERMAL METHODS; VELOCITY PROFILES; VISCOUS FINGERING;

EXPERIMENTS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL FLOODING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRESSURE DROP; RECOVERY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 78650346157     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef101061b     Document Type: Article

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