Favorable attributes alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding

SPE Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-16

  Liu, Shunhua ^a   Zhang, Danhua Leslie ^b   Yan, Wei ^c   Puerto, Maura ^a   Hirasaki, George J ^a   Miller, Clarence A ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Intertek Westport Technology Center

^c BECHTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ANIONIC SURFACTANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE TENSION;

ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; SODIUM CARBONATE; SYNTHETIC SURFACTANT;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 42549154752     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/99744-PA     Document Type: Article

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