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24-Pet-A7 Secondary and Enhanced Oil Recovery: May 2013

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  1. Question 1 Line-Drive Waterflood — Fractional Flow, Breakthrough Time, Saturation Profile
  2. Question 2 CO2-Pentane Binary Phase Behavior
  3. Question 3 Thermal-Method Screening and In-Situ Steam Quality
  4. Question 4 True/False — EOR Concepts

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98-Pet-A7 — Secondary and Enhanced Recovery · National Exams, May 2013 · 3 hours, open-book exam, non-communicating calculator permitted · four problems, all required (the exam's own instructions mark only the first four questions as they appear in the answer book, and there are exactly four on this paper).

Reference texts: Green, D.W. & Willhite, G.P., Enhanced Oil Recovery, SPE Textbook Series Vol. 6 (waterflooding, Buckley-Leverett/Welge, polymer flooding, miscible flooding, steam flooding); Lake, L.W., Enhanced Oil Recovery, 1st ed. (fractional flow, dispersion, miscible displacement); Prats, M., Thermal Recovery, SPE Monograph Vol. 7 (steam quality, thermal front propagation); Whitson, C.H. & Brulé, M.R., Phase Behavior, SPE Monograph Vol. 20 (binary P-T diagrams, critical locus); Craft, B.C. & Hawkins, M.F., Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering, 3rd ed.