High mobility ratio water flood performance prediction: Challenges and new insights

SPE Reprint Series

Volumn , Issue 61, 2008, Pages

  Kumar, M ^a   Hoang, V ^a   Satik, C ^a   Rojas, D H ^b  

^a Chevron Energy Technology Co ^*

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; HEAVY OILS; HIGH MOBILITY RATIOS; HIGH WATER CUTS; INCREMENTAL OILS; INJECTION FIELDS; MECHANISTIC STUDIES; MOBILE WATERS; OIL RECOVERIES; PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; RELIABLE PERFORMANCES; ROCK WETTABILITIES; SIMULATION RESULTS; THIEF ZONES; VISCOSITY RATIOS; VISCOUS FINGERS; WATER FLOODS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM; FLOODS; FORECASTING; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; HEAVY WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMER BLENDS; VISCOSITY; WATER INJECTION;

RECOVERY;

EID: 80053656436     PISSN: 08910901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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