Development of a new foam EOR model from laboratory and field data of the naturally fractured Cantarell field

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Characterisation and Simulation Conference and Exhibition 2011, RCSC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 123-137

  Skoreyko, Fraser ^a   Pino, Antonio Villavicencio ^b   Prada, Hector Rodríguez ^b   Nguyen, Quoc P ^c  

^a Computer Modelling Group ^*  (United States)

^b PEMEX   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-INJECTION; CONTROL FLUIDS; COREFLOOD; FIELD DATA; FIELD PILOT; FIELD SCALE; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; FOAM DEGRADATION; FOAM DENSITIES; FOAM FLOW; FOAM PERFORMANCE; IN-SITU; INJECTION TEST; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW PERMEABILITY OIL; MATCHING FIELDS; MOBILITY CONTROL; REDUCTION EFFECTS; REGENERATION MODEL; SATURATED ZONE; SINGLE WELL; SPLIT-CORE; SURFACTANT FLOODING; WORK-FLOWS;

EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; POROUS MATERIALS; QUALITY CONTROL; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER INJECTION;

FOAM CONTROL;

EID: 84860149964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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