Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by combined low salinity water/polymer flooding

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1223-1235

  Shaker Shiran, Behruz ^a   Skauge, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; INITIAL WATER SATURATION; OIL RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SURFACTANT FLOODING; WATERFLOODING EXPERIMENTS;

COREMAKING; FLOODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POLYMERS; SEAWATER; WELL FLOODING;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84875408811     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef301538e     Document Type: Article

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