Novel large-hydrophobe alkoxy carboxylate surfactants for enhanced oil recovery

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1368-1389

  Lu, Jun ^a   Britton, Christopher ^a   Solairaj, Sriram ^a   Liyanage, Pathma J ^a   Kim, Do Hoon ^a   Adkins, Stephanie ^a   Pinnawala Arachchilage, Gayani W ^a   Weerasooriya, Upali ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COSTS; CO-SURFACTANTS; COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL; COMMERCIAL SURFACTANTS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; HIGH HARDNESS; HIGH SALINITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROPHOBES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; ULTRALOW INTERFACIAL TENSION;

ALKALINITY; CARBOXYLATION; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ENHANCED RECOVERY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84864000108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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