Influences of fracture aperture on the water-shutoff performance of polyethyleneimine cross-linking partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide gels in hydraulic fractured reservoirs

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2616-2624

  Zhao, Jin Zhou ^a   Jia, Hu ^a   Pu, Wan Fen ^a   Liao, Ran ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE FORCE; APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; BASIC APPLICATION; CRITICAL PRESSURES; DEHYDRATED GELS; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; FREE WATER; GEL NETWORKS; GEL SYSTEMS; IN-LINE; INJECTIVITY; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED POLYACRYLAMIDE; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYMER GELS; SEALING AGENTS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHROMIUM; COAGULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; GELATION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDROLYSIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

GELS;

EID: 79959392791     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef200461m     Document Type: Article

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