Tertiary oil recovery with microbial biosurfactant treatment of low-permeability berea sandstone cores

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Production Operations Symposium 2005, POS 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Maudgalya, S ^a   McInerney, M J ^a   Knapp, R M ^a   Nagle, D P ^b   Folmsbee, M J ^b  

^a Petrotechnical Resources of Alaska   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CRUDE OIL; FLOODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; OPERATING COSTS; RECOVERY; SANDSTONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WELL FLOODING;

IMPROVE OIL RECOVERY; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; PARTIALLY HYDROLYZED; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SURFACTANT CONCENTRATIONS; SYNTHETIC SURFACTANTS; TERTIARY OIL RECOVERY; WATERFLOOD RESIDUAL OIL;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 85058897525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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