A new approach to deliver highly concentrated surfactants for chemical enhanced oil recovery

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 2763-2773

  Barnes, Julian ^a   Dirkzwager, Henk ^a   Dubey, Sheila ^a   Reznik, Carmen ^a  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; DISSOLUTION; LIQUIDS; MANUFACTURE; OIL FIELDS; PILOT PLANTS; POLYMERS; POWDERS; SODIUM CARBONATE; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERIES; INTERNAL OLEFIN SULFONATES; PILOT PLANT SCALE; POLYMER DISSOLUTION; PRODUCTION LOCATIONS; SURFACTANT POWDERS; TRANSPORT AND DISPERSIONS; TRANSPORTATION COST;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 84874101771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/159620-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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