ASP flood of a viscous oil in a carbonate rock

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1846-1864

  Panthi, Krishna ^a   Sharma, Himanshu ^a   Mohanty, Kishore K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VISCOSITY;

ALKALINE SURFACTANT POLYMERS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; PHASE BEHAVIOR STUDY; SECONDARY SURFACTANT; SOLUBILITY IN WATERS; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION; SURFACTANT FORMULATION; SURFACTANT PHASE BEHAVIOR;

SECONDARY RECOVERY;

EID: 84894219375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/166230-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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