Selecting the "right" ASP model by history matching core flood experiments

16th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 501-512

  Karpan, V ^a   Farajzadeh, R ^a   Zarubinska, M ^a   Stoll, M ^a   Dijk, H ^a   Matsuura, T ^a  

^a Shell   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; FLOODS; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; ALKALINE SURFACTANT POLYMERS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CORE FLOOD EXPERIMENTS; FIELD-SCALE SIMULATION; HISTORY MATCHING; MOBILITY CONTROL; SIMULATION APPROACH;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 84877949465     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.201404779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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