.../chromium gel system for application in a high-temperature and high-salinity (HTHS) carbonate reservoir. Oil displacement experiments on carbonate core samples, combined with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements were performed to demonstrate oil recovery improvement by gel treatment and illustrate...

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... reservoir was built to optimize the design of polymer-gel treatments in horizontal wells of the ISND field. The Shuaiba reservoir is a low permeability, argillaceous carbonate containing numerous highly conductive faults. This model attempted to emulate these treatments by isolating a conductive fault...

... enhancement upstream oil & gas gel treatment polymer society of petroleum engineers enhanced recovery Introduction Some wells in the Point Arguello Field have been experiencing increasing amounts of water breakthrough. Excessive water production increases handling costs, and some wells have...

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..., requirements that must be met in candidate wells and well patterns in order to achieve success, gel treatment elements that must be successfully implemented in order to achieve success, guidelines where conformance polymer-gel treatments are most successfully applied, risks and pitfalls of gel conformance...

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... of this methodology are explained, and the ranking and design of producer and injector gel treatments at three midcontinental fields are illustrated. Gel treatments based on this methodology performed much better than previous ones. A key element of the methodology is to assess the degree of communication between...

..., in an effort to develop a family of gels that can be injected in relatively small volumes (<600 barrels) into pre-existing steam channels and/or override sections within an active steam project. These inexpensive (< $15,000) gel treatments are applied with only a minimum amount of well downtime...

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... and selectively treated with chrome-lignosulfonate time-set gels in an attempt to reduce solvent and water cycling. The treatment volumes varied between 8500 and 14,000 bb1s (1350 and 2225 m 3 ) per well. As part of an evaluation of the gel treatments, incremental oil production responses observed at a number...