Interactions of Microbial-Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-104

  Li, Jian ^a   Liu, Jishan ^a   Trefry, Michael G ^a,b   Park, Jungho ^b   Liu, Keyu ^b   Haq, Bashirul ^a   Johnston, Colin D ^a,b   Volk, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary number; MEOR; Residual oil saturation; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY NUMBERS; COMBINED EFFECT; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COUPLED PROCESS; CROSS-COUPLINGS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FUNCTIONAL RELATION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; IMMISCIBLE FLUIDS; IMPLICIT METHODS; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; MEOR; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MODEL RESULTS; OIL RECOVERIES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PHYSICAL PROCESS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; RESIDUAL SATURATION; TEST CASE; THEORETICAL MODELS; VISCOUS FORCES;

CAPILLARITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; METABOLISM; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; SURFACE TENSION; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBER; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMMISCIBLE FLUID; METABOLISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 79952446157     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9669-6     Document Type: Article

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