Minimum miscibility pressure determination: Modified multiple mixing cell method

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 707-719

  Teklu, Tadesse Weldu ^a   Ghedan, Shawket G ^b   Graves, Ramona M ^a   Yin, Xiaolong ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b Petroleum Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; HYDROCARBONS; MIXING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SOLUBILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENHANCE OIL RECOVERIES; KEY DESIGN PARAMETERS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MINIMUM MISCIBILITY PRESSURE; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; VANISHING INTERFACIAL TENSIONS;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 84866029900     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/155454-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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