Overcoming design challenges of chemical EOR in high-temperature, high salinity carbonates

SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, MEOS, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 742-756

  Levitt, David ^a   Klimenko, Alexandra ^a   Jouenne, Stephane ^a   Chamerois, Manuel ^a   Bourrel, Maurice ^a  

^a TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; FLOODS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CAPILLARY DESATURATION; CARBONATE FORMATIONS; CORE-SCALE HETEROGENEITIES; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; MOBILITY REDUCTION; POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRESSURE BUILD UP; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 84883250545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/164241-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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