Wettability Alteration in Carbonate Rocks by Implementing New Derived Natural Surfactant: Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 645-667

  Ahmadi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Galedarzadeh, Morteza ^a   Shadizadeh, Seyed Reza ^a  

^a PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chemical enhanced oil recovery; Core displacement; Natural surfactant; Oil recovery; Wettability alteration

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; OIL SHALE; OIL WELL FLOODING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHASE SEPARATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WELL FLOODING; WETTING;

CORE DISPLACEMENT; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; NATURAL SURFACTANTS; OIL RECOVERIES; WETTABILITY ALTERATION;

ENHANCED RECOVERY;

ADSORPTION; CARBONATE ROCK; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; RESERVOIR FLOODING; RESERVOIR ROCK; SURFACE TENSION; SURFACTANT; WETTABILITY;

GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA;

EID: 84939416693     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-014-0418-0     Document Type: Article

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