Study of interfacial tension between oil and surfactant polymer flooding

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1846-1854

  Yu, Q ^a   Jiang, H ^a   Zhao, C ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

emulsion; Jamin effect; low interfacial tension; oil recovery; surfactant polymer flooding

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; JAMIN EFFECT; LOW INTERFACIAL TENSION; LOW-IFT; OIL RECOVERIES; POLYMER FLOODING; SURFACTANT POLYMER FLOODING; VISUAL EXPERIMENTS;

EMULSIFICATION; POLYMERS; RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77958172556     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916466.2010.506466     Document Type: Article

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