Low salinity waterflooding and mineral dissolution

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1574-1590

  Pu, H ^a   Xie, X ^a   Yin, P ^a   Morrow, N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CEMENTS; COAL DEPOSITS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENTS; METHANE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SANDSTONE; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANHYDRITE DISSOLUTION; COALBED METHANE PRODUCTION; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SULFATE-ION CONTENTS;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 78651079536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/134042-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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