A novel alkaline-surfactant-foam EOR process

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1475-1491

  Guo, Hua ^a   Faber, Rien ^b   Buijse, Marten ^b   Zitha, Pacelli L J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EMULSIFICATION; FLOODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EMULSIFIED OIL; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; LABORATORY STUDIES; MOBILITY CONTROL; MOBILITY REDUCTION; OIL RECOVERY MECHANISMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SURFACTANT FOAMS;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 80755129216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/145043-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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