The roles of nano-scale intermolecular forces on the film stability during wettability alteration process of the oil reservoir rocks

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Trinidad and Tobago Energy Resources Conference 2010, SPE TT 2010

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 257-266

  Rahbar, M ^a   Ayatollahi, S ^a   Ghatee, M H ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; CONTACT ANGLE; CRUDE OIL; FORECASTING; GASOLINE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ROCKS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CRUDE OIL COMPOSITION; DISJOINING PRESSURE ISOTHERMS; DISJOINING PRESSURES; INTER-MOLECULAR FORCES; INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

WETTING;

EID: 78650469632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/132616-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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