Surfactant flooding in challenging conditions: Towards hard brines and high temperatures

SPE Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference, MEOS, Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1637-1652

  Tabary, R ^a   Bazin, B ^a   Douarche, F ^a   Moreau, P ^b   Oukhemanou Destremaut, F ^b  

^a Chemical EOR Alliance   (United States)

^b Solvay   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; ADSORPTION; FLOODS; POLYMERS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; THERMAL OIL RECOVERY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ADSORPTION INHIBITORS; CHEMICAL FORMULATION; CONVENTIONAL INJECTIONS; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; MODERATE TEMPERATURE; SURFACTANT ADSORPTION; SURFACTANT FLOODING PROCESS; ULTRALOW INTERFACIAL TENSION;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

EID: 84883228643     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/164359-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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