Advanced waterflooding in chalk reservoirs: Understanding of underlying mechanisms

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 389, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 281-290

  Zahid, Adeel ^a   Sandersen, Sara Bülow ^a   Stenby, Erling H ^a   Von Solms, Nicolas ^a   Shapiro, Alexander ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chalk reservoirs; Emulsification; IFT; Oil recovery; Viscosity; Waterflooding

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; EMULSIFICATION; MICROEMULSIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; VISCOSITY; WELL FLOODING;

CHALK RESERVOIRS; CRUDE OIL VISCOSITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE; IFT; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; OIL RECOVERIES; POTENTIAL-DETERMINING IONS; ROCK WETTABILITY; SULFATE ION; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

IONS;

CARBONIC ACID; PETROLEUM; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; MICROEMULSION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VISCOSITY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 80054068733     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: 18734359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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