A mechanistic analysis of viscous fingering in low-tension polymer flooding in heavy-oil reservoirs

Benyamin Yadali Jamaloei; Riyaz Kharrat; Farshid Torabi

doi:10.1016/j.petrol.2011.07.011

A mechanistic analysis of viscous fingering in low-tension polymer flooding in heavy-oil reservoirs

Benyamin Yadali Jamaloei
, Riyaz Kharrat
, Farshid Torabi

Chair of Reservoir Engineering (570)

University of Calgary
Petroleum University of Technology
Petroleum Systems Engineering Department
Petroleum University of Technology Research Center

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	228-232
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
Volume	78
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2011.07.011
Publication status	Published - Aug 2011

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BYJ thanks the Petroleum Research Center at the Petroleum University of Technology, Tehran, for providing the laboratory facilities and the Research and Development Directorate of the National Iranian Oil Company for financial support in conducting the experiments. This paper was originally presented as SPE 138127 at the 2010 SPE Latin American & Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference held in Lima, Peru.

Keywords

Fingering mechanisms
Heavy oil
Micromodel
Surfactant-polymer flooding
Viscous fingering

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