Feasibility study of air injection for IOR in low permeability oil reservoirs of XinJiang Oilfield China

Society of Petroleum Engineers - International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in China 2010, IOGCEC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1315-1326

  Hou, Shengming ^a   Ren, Shao Ran ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Niu, Baolun ^a   Yu, Hongmin ^b   Qian, Genbao ^c   Gu, Hongjun ^c   Liu, Baozhen ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^b SINOPEC   (China)

^c PetroChina   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; FLOODS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PROVEN RESERVES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); TEMPERATURE;

DISPLACEMENT EFFICIENCY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION RATE; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; VERY LOW PERMEABILITY;

LOW PERMEABILITY RESERVOIRS;

EID: 78650604370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/131087-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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