Heavy oil-in-water emulsion as a novel sealant in the near well bore region

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2007, CIPC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zeidani, K ^a   Polikar, M ^a   Huang, H ^b   Boyd, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Canada)

^c Seal MastR Systems Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BOREHOLES; CRUDE OIL; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; DROPS; EMULSIFICATION; EMULSIONS; GASOLINE; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; OSTWALD RIPENING; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; SEALANTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BLOCKING MECHANISMS; HEAVY OIL-IN-WATER EMULSION; INJECTION VELOCITY; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION; SURFACTANT CONTENT; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

OIL WELLS;

EID: 85087227799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2007-183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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