A practical method to calculate polymer viscosity accurately in numerical reservoir simulators

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 3881-3894

  Sharma, Abhinav ^a   Delshad, Mojdeh ^a   Huh, Chun ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; HYDROLYSIS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; OIL WELLS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOBILITY CONTROL; POLYACRYLAMIDE POLYMERS; POLYMER VISCOSITY; RATE OF HYDROLYSIS; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR;

VISCOSITY;

EID: 84863402989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/147239-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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