Quantitative In Situ Enhanced Oil Recovery Monitoring Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 683-706

  Mitchell, Jonathan ^a   Staniland, John ^b   Chassagne, Romain ^b   Fordham, Edmund J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Core analysis; Diffusion editing; Enhanced oil recovery; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Spatially resolved T 2

Indexed keywords

2D CORRELATION; ALKALINE SURFACTANT POLYMERS; BULK MEASUREMENT; CORRELATION MEASUREMENT; DIFFUSION-EDITING; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FLOWING LIQUID; FLUID-PHASE; HIGH PERMEABILITY; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MONITORING; LABORATORY SCALE; LOW FIELD; LOW-FIELD NMR; MIDDLE EAST; NMR DATA; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL SATURATION; RECOVERED OIL; REMAINING OIL; SELF-DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; VISCOUS INSTABILITY;

CORE ANALYSIS; CRUDE OIL; DIFFUSION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; HEAVY WATER; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

CRUDE OIL; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE; SATURATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

EID: 84865508330     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-012-0019-8     Document Type: Article

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