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Efficiency of low salinity polymer flooding in sandstone cores

Kozaki, 2012

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Waterflooding has been used for many decades as a way of recovering oil from petroleum reservoirs. Historically the salinity of the injection water has not been regarded as a key variable in determining the amount of oil recovered. In recent years, however, evidence of …
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