Stabilizing viscoelastic surfactants in high density brines

Proceedings - SPE International Symposium on Oilfield Chemistry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 830-840

  Van Zanten, Ryan ^a  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID TREATMENTS; ELECTROSTATIC SCREENING; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH-DENSITY COMPLETION BRINES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY WORK; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANO-METER SCALE; NOVEL METHODS; POLYMER GELS; PRODUCTION ZONES; SALT TOLERANCE; SAND CONTROL; SURFACTANT AGGREGATES; VISCOELASTIC SURFACTANTS; ZERO-TOLERANCE;

ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTS; FLUIDS; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); HYDROCARBONS; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELL COMPLETION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHASE SEPARATION; POLYMERS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); VISCOSITY;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 79960212444     PISSN: 10461779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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