Low-cost, high-performance chemicals for enhanced oil recovery

SPE - DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1474-1497

  Yang, Hyuntae ^a   Britton, Christopher ^a   Liyanage, Pathma J ^a   Solairaj, Sriram ^a   Kim, Do Hoon ^a   Nguyen, Quoc ^a   Weerasooriya, Upali ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a,b  

^a SPE ^*  (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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EID: 77955397986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/129978-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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