Modeling surfactant enhanced oil recovery from short and long fractured carbonate cores and scaling of results to field applications

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1409-1421

  Alamdari, Baharak B ^a   Kazemi, Hossein ^a   Salehi, Mehdi ^b   Thomas, Charles ^b   Izadi, Mehdi ^b   Manrique, Eduardo ^b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b TIORCO ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE CORES; DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS; ENHANCED GRAVITY; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FIELD APPLICATION; FLUID FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; FRACTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; FRACTURED CARBONATE RESERVOIRS; FRACTURED CARBONATES; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; MICELLAR SOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL RECOVERIES; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; ROCK MATRIX; SCALING RULES; SHORT CORE; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; THEORETICAL BASIS;

ANIONIC SURFACTANTS; CARBONATION; CENTRIFUGATION; CENTRIFUGES; CRUDE OIL; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; POROUS MATERIALS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 84856656026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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