1990 Annual
Report
Seright, R.S. and Martin, F.D.: "Fluid Diversion and Sweep Improvement with Chemical Gels in Oil Recovery Processes," second annual report (DOE/BC/14447-8), Contract No. DE-FG22-89BC14447, U.S. DOE (June 1991). |
| Chapter 1: Introduction |
| Chapter 2:Gel Screening Studies |
| Chapter 3:Impact of Gelation pH, Rock Permeability, and Lithology on the Performance of a Monomer-Based Gel |
| Chapter 4:A Preliminary Study of Permeability Reduction for CO2 and Water Using a Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Gel |
| Chapter 5: A Preliminary Study of Permeability Reduction for Oil and Water Using a Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Gel |
| Chapter 6:Rheology of Chromium (III) - Xanthan Gels and Gelants in Porous Media |
| Chapter 7: Impact of Diffusion, Dispersion, and Viscous Fingering on Gel Placement in Injection Wells |
| Chapter 8: An Examination of Flow-Profile Changes for Field Applications of Gel Treatments in Injection Wells |
| Appendix A:Procedure for Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Glass Micromodels |
| Appendix B:Gelation Studies at the Optimum Reaction pH |
| Appendix C:Gelation Studies at pH=7 |
| Appendix D: Results from Core Experiments with Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Gelants |
| Appendix E: Data from Viscous Fingering Experiments |
| Appendix F: Fortran Coding for Theoretical Model: Radial Flow |
| Appendix G:Fortran Coding for Theoretical Model: Linear Flow |
| Appendix H: Formulations for Numerical Model |