Visual investigation of extra-heavy oil recovery by CO2/N2 foam injection

16th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 236-255

  Emadi, A ^a   Sohrabi, M ^a   Jami, M ^a   Ireland, S ^a   Robertson, G ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT PROCESS; HEAVY OIL RECOVERY; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; IMMISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; VISCOSITY CONTRAST; VISCOSITY REDUCTION; VISUAL INVESTIGATION; VISUALISATION EXPERIMENTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CRUDE OIL; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; RECOVERY; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY; VISCOSITY; VISUALIZATION; WATER INJECTION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 80755150956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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