A novel ultra-low interfacial tension foam flooding agent to enhance heavy oil recovery

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 94-102

  Kang, Wanli ^a   Liu, Shuren ^a   Meng, Lingwei ^a   Cao, Dongqing ^a   Fan, Haiming ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CRUDE OIL; ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOODS; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM ADDITIVES; SECONDARY RECOVERY; SODIUM CARBONATE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; IMPROVE OIL RECOVERY; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; OIL DISPLACEMENT EXPERIMENTS; ULTRALOW INTERFACIAL TENSION; VARIATION COEFFICIENT;

FOAM CONTROL;

EID: 77954245270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/129175-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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