Application of viscoelaslic surfactants as mobility-control agents in low-tension surfactant floods

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 166-179

  Lakatos, Istvan ^a   Toth, Janos ^a   Bodi, Tibor ^a   Lakatos Szabo, Julianna ^a   Berger, Paul D ^b   Lee, Christie ^b  

^a U of Miskolc   (Hungary)

^b Oil Chem Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL FLOODING; MOBILITY CONTROL AGENTS; VISCOELASLIC SURFACTANTS;

RHEOLOGY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOELASTICITY; WETTING;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 34249104179     PISSN: 10461779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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