New surfactant developments for chemical enhanced oil recovery

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 120, Issue , 2014, Pages 94-101

  Lu, Jun ^a   Liyanage, Pathma Jith ^a   Solairaj, Sriram ^a   Adkins, Stephanie ^a   Arachchilage, Gayani Pinnawala ^a   Kim, Do Hoon ^a   Britton, Christopher ^a   Weerasooriya, Upali ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

ASP flooding; Chemical EOR; SP flooding; Surfactant developments

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATION; ETHYLENE; FLOODS; MICROEMULSIONS; OIL SHALE; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PROPYLENE; WELL FLOODING;

ASP FLOODING; CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERIES; CHEMICAL EOR; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; RESERVOIR TEMPERATURES; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SP FLOODING; ULTRALOW INTERFACIAL TENSION;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL WELL; RESERVOIR FLOODING; SURFACTANT; VISCOSITY; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84907359425     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2014.05.021     Document Type: Article

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