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Experimental Investigation of Rheological Properties of Foamy Oil

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The primary recovery of some heavy-oil reservoirs can reach relatively high values by using solution-gas-drive technology in which gas dissolved in heavy oil is released and drives the oil when the formation pressure drops below the bubble point. Rheological properties of foamy oil in porous media were studied using conditions of the Orinoco heavy-oil belt in Venezuela as examples. The relative mobilities of foamy and normal oil were compared in core flooding experiments. Improvement of the oil phase as a result of forming the foam structure was analyzed. The research results could be useful for understanding the mobility parameters of heavy oil and increasing the recovery efficiency in heavy-oil reservoirs.

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Acknowledgments

The work was financially supported by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (No. 51574200) and State Program for Support of Basic Research (No. 2008ZX050054).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Reservoir Geology and Development Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China

    Jian Wang, Bo Kang, Liehui Zhang, Yulong Zhao & Danlin Wang

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Translated from Khimiya i Tekhnologiya Topliv Masel, No. 4, pp. 48 – 52, July – August, 2018.

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Wang, J., Kang, B., Zhang, L. et al. Experimental Investigation of Rheological Properties of Foamy Oil. Chem Technol Fuels Oils 54, 467–475 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10553-018-0948-1

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