Viscous fingering during non-thermal heavy oil recovery

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 2855-2868

  Doorwar, Shashvat ^a   Mohanty, Kishore K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; FLOODS; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; POLYMER BLENDS; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VISCOSITY;

FINGER STRUCTURES; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; HEAVY OIL RECOVERY; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; PORE-SCALE PHENOMENON; SURFACTANT FLOODS; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; TERTIARY OIL RECOVERY;

THERMAL OIL RECOVERY;

EID: 84856642840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/146841-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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