Selectivity of pore-scale elastic microspheres as a novel profile control and oil displacement agent

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5092-5101

  Yao, Chuanjin ^a   Lei, Guanglun ^a   Li, Lei ^a   Gao, Xuemei ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINE WATER; FIELD TEST; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; INJECTION PROFILE; LOW PERMEABILITY; MATCHING FACTOR; OIL DISPLACEMENT; OPTIMAL MATCHING; OPTIMAL VALUES; PORE THROAT; PROFILE CONTROL; SAND PACK; SWELLING PROPERTIES;

EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; WATER INJECTION;

MICROSPHERES;

EID: 84865122672     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef300689c     Document Type: Conference Paper

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