Numerical simulation of foam flooding for sweep improvement

Annual Technical Meeting 1997, ATM 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Shrivastava, V K ^a   Singhal, A K ^b   Coombe, D A ^c   Belgrave, J D M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Petroleum Recovery Institute   (Canada)

^c University of Calgary and Computer Modelling Group Ltd   (Canada)

^d Triton Vuko Energy Group Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OIL WELL FLOODING; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CARBONATE RESERVOIR; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FAVORABLE CONDITIONS; FIELD IMPLEMENTATION; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY; SURFACTANT SOLUTION;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

EID: 85088203048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/97-58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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