Effect of oil viscosity, permeability and injection rate on performance of waterflooding, CO2 flooding and WAG process in recovery of heavy oils

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources and International Petroleum Conference 2010

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 3011-3016

  Torabi, F ^a   Jamaloei, B Y ^b   Zarivnyy, O ^a   Paquin, B A ^a   Rumpel, N J ^a   Wilton, R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE; ECONOMIC LIFE; FLUID VISCOSITY; GAS FLOODS; GAS STREAMS; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; HEAVY OIL; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; INJECTION RATES; INJECTION SCHEMES; INJECTION VOLUME; OIL VISCOSITY; PORE VOLUME; RECOVERY FACTORS; SAND PACK; SAND SYSTEMS; WATER ALTERNATING GAS PROCESS; WATER FLOOD; WATERFLOODING;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; HEAVY WATER; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; RESOURCE VALUATION; SAND; SECONDARY RECOVERY; VISCOSITY; WATER INJECTION; WATER RESOURCES; WELL FLOODING;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 79953090336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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