Development of thermally and chemically stable large-hydrophobe alkoxy carboxylate surfactants

SPE - DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1340-1349

  Adkins, Stephanie ^a   Arachchilage, Gayani Pinnawala ^a   Solairaj, Sriram ^a   Lu, Jun ^a   Weerasooriya, Upali ^a   Pope, Gary ^a,b  

^a SPE ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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