Improved oil recovery from tensleep sandstone - Studies of brine-rock interactions by micro-CT and AFM

15th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 528-542

  Lebedeva, E ^a   Senden, T J ^a   Knackstedt, M ^a   Morrow, N ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); CARBONATE SURFACES; IMPROVE OIL RECOVERY; IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY; INITIAL WATER SATURATION; LABORATORY STUDIES; MONOVALENT CATIONS; RECOVERY MECHANISMS;

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRUDE OIL; EFFLUENTS; FLOODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POSITIVE IONS; QUARTZ; RECOVERY; SANDSTONE; WATER INJECTION; WELL FLOODING;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84877935554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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