Foams stabilized by in-situ surface activated nanoparticles in bulk and porous media

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 4758-4771

  Singh, Robin ^a   Mohanty, Kishore K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; HYDROPHILICITY; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SANDSTONE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TEXTURES;

FOAM STABILIZATION; HYDROPHILIC NANOPARTICLES; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; MOBILITY REDUCTION; OIL DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL MICROGRAPHS; SURFACE ACTIVATION; SURFACE MODIFIED NANOPARTICLES;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84931468305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/170942-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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