Sweep efficiency of heavy oil recovery by chemical methods

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 2829-2839

  Kumar, Rahul ^a   Mohanty, Kishore K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CRUDE OIL; EFFICIENCY; EMULSIFICATION; FLOODS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL METHOD; HEAVY OIL RECOVERY; OIL RECOVERIES; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; SURFACTANT FLOODS; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; WELL PATTERNS;

RECOVERY;

EID: 84863414066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/146839-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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