Selecting the "right" ASP model by history matching coreflood experiments

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Enhanced Oil Recovery Conference 2011, EORC 2011

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 564-575

  Karpan, V ^a   Farajzadeh, R ^a   Zarubinska, M ^a   Dijk, H ^a   Matsuura, T ^a   Stoll, M ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b Shell Development Oman LLC   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ALKALINE SURFACTANT POLYMERS; CHEMICAL FLOODS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; COREFLOOD; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; COREFLOOD TESTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIELD LEVEL; FIELD-SCALE SIMULATION; HISTORY MATCH; HISTORY MATCHING; IN-SITU; INPUT DATAS; MOBILITY CONTROL; MODELING APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODELS; SIMULATION APPROACH; SIMULATION RESULT;

ALKALINITY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80755126612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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