A novel class of large-hydrophobe tristyrylphenol (TSP) alkoxy sulfate surfactants for chemical enhanced oil recovery

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue , 2015, Pages 73-85

  Liyanage, Pathma Jith ^a   Lu, Jun ^a   Arachchilage, Gayani W Pinnawala ^a   Weerasooriya, Upali P ^a   Pope, Gary A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Alkali surfactant polymer flooding; Chemical EOR; Tristyrylphenol (TSP) alkoxy sulfate

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ANIONIC SURFACTANTS; FLOODS; MICROEMULSIONS; OIL SHALE; OIL WELL FLOODING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WELL FLOODING;

ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER FLOODING; BEHAVIOR EXPERIMENTS; CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERIES; CHEMICAL EOR; POLYMER FLOODING; TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENT; TRISTYRYLPHENOL (TSP) ALKOXY SULFATE; ULTRALOW INTERFACIAL TENSION;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; HYDROPHOBICITY; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; RESERVOIR FLOODING; SALINITY; SULFATE; SURFACTANT;

EID: 84924301754     PISSN: 09204105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2015.02.023     Document Type: Article

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