Sweep efficiency improvement by alkaline flooding for Pelican Lake heavy oil

Society of Petroleum Engineers - Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference 2011, CURC 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1384-1398

  Dong, Mingzhe ^a   Ma, Shanzhou ^b   Li, Aifen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE FLOODING; CHEMICAL FORMULAE; HEAVY OIL; LABORATORY STUDIES; NAOH SOLUTIONS; OIL RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; OPTIMUM COMBINATION; OPTIMUM CONCENTRATION; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; TENSION MEASUREMENT; WATER-IN-OIL;

EFFICIENCY; LAKES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SODIUM; TERTIARY RECOVERY;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 84860550663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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