Novel large-hydrophobe alkoxy carboxylate surfactants for enhanced oil recovery

SPE Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1024-1034

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b an Ecolab Company   (United States)

^c Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

^d CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CARBOXYLATION; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERIES; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NATURALLY OCCURRING; RESERVOIR CONDITIONS; SYNERGISTIC INTERACTION; TOTAL CHEMICAL COSTS; ULTRALOW INTERFACIAL TENSION;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

EID: 84919434080     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/154261-PA     Document Type: Article

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