Hydrolysis effect on the properties of a new class of viscoelastic surfactant-based acid and damage caused by the hydrolysis products

SPE - European Formation Damage Conference, Proceedings, EFDC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 755-771

  He, Zhenhua ^a   Wang, Guanqun ^a   Nasr Ei din, Hisham A ^a   Holt, Stuart ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AKZO NOBEL CENTRAL RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FRACTURING; COREFLOOD EXPERIMENTS; DAMAGE TO THE FORMATIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROLYSIS PRODUCTS; MATRIX ACID TREATMENT; VISCOELASTIC SURFACTANTS; VISCOSITY REDUCTION;

EXHIBITIONS; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); LIMESTONE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PHASE SEPARATION; VISCOSITY;

HYDROLYSIS;

EID: 84884868024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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