Pushing the envelope for polymer flooding towards high-temperature and high-salinity reservoirs with polyacrylamide based ter-polymers

SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, MEOS, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1001-1009

  Vermolen, E C M ^a   Van Haasterecht, M J T ^a   Masalmeh, S K ^b   Faber, M J ^a   Boersma, D M ^a   Gruenenfelder, M ^c  

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

^b Shell Technology Oman LLC   (United States)

^c SNFHC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE CORES; CARBONATE RESERVOIR; DIVALENT IONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-SALINITY RESERVOIRS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; ION CONCENTRATIONS; N-VINYL PYRROLIDONE; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED POLYACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER FLOODING; POLYMER STABILITY; RESERVOIR ROCK; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; STABILIZING EFFECTS; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS;

ADSORPTION; BRINES; BUTANE; COREMAKING; IONS; MONOMERS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84856650696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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