Potential of alkaline surfactant polymer (ASP) flooding in a medium-light oil reservoir with strong bottom aquifer

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2014: Driving Integrated and Innovative EOR

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 119-130

  Al suiaimam, Hanaa ^a   Stoll, Martin ^b   Van Wunnik, John ^a   Faber, Rien ^a   Arkesteijn, Fred ^c  

^a PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^b Shell ^*  (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; AQUIFERS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; OIL FIELDS; OIL SHALE; OIL WELL FLOODING; OIL WELL TESTING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL FLOODING;

ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; DEVELOPMENT SCENARIOS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FIELD DEVELOPMENT; HORIZONTAL INJECTORS; OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION; SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 84905851453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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