Developing a layered heterogeneous precambrian reservoir by polymer flooding

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2012, OGWA - EOR: Building Towards Sustainable Growth

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 336-348

  Abu Shiekah, Issa ^a   Nieuwenhuijs, Robbert A ^a   Ross, Ryan ^a   Lanier, Gary ^a   Belushi, Abdulaziz ^a   Saadi, Faisal ^a   Nofli, Sami ^a   Harthi, Said ^a   Van Wunnik, John ^a  

^a PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL FLOODING; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FIELD TESTING; HISTORY MATCHING; INJECTION POTENTIAL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LAYERED RESERVOIRS; OIL RECOVERIES; OIL SATURATION; OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES; PETROPHYSICAL; POLYMER FLOODING; POLYMER INJECTION; PRECAMBRIAN; PRODUCTION DATA; SWEEP EFFICIENCY; WATER FLOOD; WORK-FLOWS; WORK-RELATED;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMERS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WATER INJECTION;

EID: 84865970310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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