Immiscible foam for enhancing oil recovery: Bulk and porous media experiments

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2214-2226

  Andrianov, A ^a   Farajzadeh, R ^a   Mahmoodi Nick, M ^b   Talanana, M ^a   Zitha, P L J ^c  

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

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FOAM; CARBON-CHAIN LENGTH; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COREFLOOD; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FUNCTION OF TIME; GAS FLOODING; GAS INJECTION; GLASS COLUMN; INJECTION RATES; LABORATORY STUDIES; OIL MOLECULES; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL RECOVERIES; SANDSTONE CORES; STABLE FOAMS; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; SURFACTANT FORMULATION; WATER-ALTERNATING-GAS INJECTION; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EXPERIMENTS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

FOAMS;

EID: 84857025838     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie201872v     Document Type: Article

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