Determination of increase in pressure drop and oil recovery associated with alkaline flooding for heavy oil reservoirs

Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2009, CIPC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Arhuoma, M ^a   Yang, D ^a   Dong, M ^b   Idem, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; DROPS; EFFICIENCY; EMULSIFICATION; FLOODS; GASOLINE; OIL WELL FLOODING; OSTWALD RIPENING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SECONDARY RECOVERY; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; HEAVY OIL RECOVERY; HEAVY OIL RESERVOIRS; HIGH PERMEABILITY ZONE; INCREASE IN PRESSURE; OIL-IN-WATER (O/W) EMULSION; SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; WATER IN OIL EMULSIONS;

HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION;

EID: 85088771064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/2009-053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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