Design of an ASP flood in a high-temperature, high-salinity, low-permeability carbonate

Society of Petroleum Engineers - International Petroleum Technology Conference 2012, IPTC 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 2234-2252

  Levitt, David B ^a   Dufour, Sophie ^b,c   Pope, Gary ^b   Morel, Danielle ^a   Gauer, Pascal ^a  

^a TOTAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c YPF ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE FIELDS; CARBONATE FORMATIONS; CARBONATE OIL RESERVOIRS; CHEMICAL FLOODING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW PERMEABILITY;

GYPSUM; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; SEAWATER; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 84861385395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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