Viscosifying surfactant technology for heavy oil reservoirs

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Heavy Oil Conference Canada 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 494-506

  Morvan, M ^a   Degre G ^a   Beaumont, J ^a   Colin, A ^b   Dupuis, G ^a   Zaitoun, A ^a   Al Maamari, R S ^c   Al Hasmi, A R ^c   Al Sharji, H H ^d  

^a Rhodia ^*  (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^d PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BULK FLOW; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; CONFINED GEOMETRIES; CONVENTIONAL POLYMERS; ELASTIC FLUIDS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FIELD SCALE; FLOW PROPERTIES; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMERS; IMPROVE OIL RECOVERY; INJECTIVITY; LIGHT OIL; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; NEWTONIAN BEHAVIOURS; NON-POLYMERIC; OIL RECOVERIES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY TECHNIQUE; POLYMER FLOODING; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SINGLE-PHASE CONDITIONS; SURFACTANT SOLUTION; WEISSENBERG NUMBER;

ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WATER INJECTION; WELL FLOODING;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 84866246107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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