The role of co-solvents and co-surfactants in making chemical floods robust

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1515-1532

  Sahni, Vinay ^a   Dean, Robert M ^a   Britton, Chris ^a   Kim, Do Hoon ^a   Weerasooriya, Upali ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUDE OIL; FLOODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERS; SOLVENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL FORMULATION; MOBILITY CONTROL; OIL CONCENTRATION; POLYMER TRANSPORT; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; SMALL CONCENTRATION; STABLE SOLUTIONS;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 77954185296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/130007-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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