Chemical process for improved oil recovery from Bakken shale

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 664-671

  Shuler, Patrick ^a   Tang, Hongxin ^a   Lu, Zayne ^a   Tang, Yongchun ^b  

^a ChemEOR Inc   (United States)

^b Power Environmental Energy Research Institute (PEERI)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURING FLUIDS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SHALE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL FORMULATION; ECONOMIC PRODUCTION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TREATMENTS; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION; SURFACTANT AGENTS; SURFACTANT FORMULATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 84860625752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/147531-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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