Impact of fracture growth on well injectivity and reservoir sweep during waterflood and chemical EOR processes

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 2669-2683

  Lee, Kyunghaeng ^a   Huh, Chun ^a   Sharma, Mukul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL EOR; CHEMICAL FLOODING; COLD WATER INJECTION; COMPLEX POLYMERS; DYNAMIC FRACTURES; FRACTURE GROWTH; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; INJECTED FLUIDS; INJECTIVITY; MULTI-LAYERED; NON-NEWTONIAN; OIL DROPLETS; OIL RECOVERIES; POLYMER INJECTION; POLYMER RHEOLOGY; POROELASTIC; PROCESS PERFORMANCE; RESERVOIR PERFORMANCE; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SHEAR THINNING; SHEAR-RATE DEPENDENCE; WATER FLOOD; WELL PATTERNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EXHIBITIONS; FILTRATION; FRACTURE; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMERS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RHEOLOGY; THERMAL STRESS; WATER INJECTION; WELL FLOODING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84863020769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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