Interactions between acidic crude oil and alkali and their effects on enhanced oil recovery

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1642-1649

  Samanta, Abhijit ^a   Ojha, Keka ^a   Mandal, Ajay ^a  

^a INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACIDIC COMPONENTS; ALKALINE FLOODING; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTRUMS; IN-SITU FORMATIONS; INTERFACIAL TENSIONS; OIL RECOVERIES; ORIGINAL OIL IN PLACES; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SURFACE ACTIVE SUBSTANCES; WATERFLOODING;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CRUDE OIL; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 79955427902     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef101729f     Document Type: Article

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