Wormlike micelles for mobility control in EOR

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE EOR Conference at Oil and Gas West Asia 2012, OGWA - EOR: Building Towards Sustainable Growth

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 627-634

  Awang, Mariyamni ^a   Japper, Azuraien ^a   Sandeep, ^a   Dzulkarnain, Iskandar ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUM; CHEMICAL EOR; CHEMICAL FLOODING; FORMATION WATER; HIGH COSTS; HIGH SALINITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITION; HIGH VISCOSITIES; INJECTION PROBLEMS; INJECTION TECHNIQUES; MOBILITY CONTROL; PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; POLYMER FLOODING; RESEARCH STUDIES; RESIDUAL OIL; SHEAR FORCE; STABLE MICELLES; WORM-LIKE MICELLES; XANTHAN GUM;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; BIODEGRADATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURING FLUIDS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); OIL FIELDS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VISCOELASTICITY;

MICELLES;

EID: 84866037943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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