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AssigneeSchlumberger Technology Corporation
InventorsShi Su, Marie Ann Giddins, Paul Naccache, Andrew Clarke, Edmund J. Fordham
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An apparent viscosity of an aqueous polymer composition used in a polymer flood may be determined by generating a relative permeability interpolation computer simulation model that is associated with a capillary desaturation function and that interpolates relative permeability curves for a coreflood experiment, validating the relative permeability interpolation computer simulation model using experimental data generated from the coreflood experiment using a water flood performed at a plurality of incremental flow rates on a core plug, determining an interpolated relative permeability to water for the aqueous polymer composition using experimental data generated from the coreflood experiment using a multi-phase flood with the aqueous polymer composition, and determining an apparent viscosity of the aqueous polymer composition from the interpolated relative permeability to water. The determined apparent viscosity may then be used to run a simulation to model the flow of the aqueous polymer composition.
A method of determining an apparent viscosity of an aqueous polymer composition used in a polymer flood, the method comprising:
A method of simulating an aqueous polymer composition injection, the method comprising:
An apparatus, comprising:
A program product, comprising:
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