New insights into the mechanism of mobility reduction by associative type copolymers

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Enhanced Oil Recovery Conference, EORC 2013: Delivering the Promise NOW!

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 186-201

  Reichenbach Klinke, Roland ^a   Stavland, Arne ^b   Langlotz, Björn ^c   Wenzke, Benjamin ^a   Brodt, Gregor ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

^b International Research Institute of Stavanger   (United Kingdom)

^c BASF Construction Chemicals GmbH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; FLOODS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; OIL WELL FLOODING; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS; SANDSTONE; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR THINNING;

ASSOCIATIVE POLYMERS; ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTIES; BENTHEIM SANDSTONES; CORE FLOOD EXPERIMENTS; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SHEAR-THINNING BEHAVIOR;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 84889813304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/165225-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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