Surfactant–Polymer Viscosity Effects on Enhanced Oil Recovery ...

Surfactant-Polymer Interactions in a Combined Enhanced Oil ...

Abstract: The traditional Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes allow improving the performance of mature oilfields after waterflooding ...

The Synergistic Effects between Sulfobetaine and Hydrophobically ...

After forming aggregates with HMPAM molecules, the viscosity will increase. The presence of two polymers all weakened the surfactant oil–water ...

Synergistic effects of surfactant and polymer on the viscosity and oil ...

Olajire, Review of ASP EOR (alkaline surfactant polymer enhanced oil recovery) technology in the petroleum industry: prospects and challenges, Energy, № 77, с.

Recent advancement of hybrid materials used in chemical ...

Furthermore, the oil recovery of surfactant-polymer foam was found to be ... Enhanced oil recovery with surfactant flooding Technical University of ...

Enhanced Oil Recovery with Surfactant Flooding

solutions: effects of polymer and salt concentration on complex ... The effect of significant viscosity reduction of oil in contact with particular ...

Evaluating rheological properties and recovery performance of ...

Keywords Enhanced oil recovery · Anionic surfactant flooding · Interfacial tension · Polymeric surfactant · Polymer ... shows the impact of ...

The Effect of Surfactant on Performance of Polymer Systems Used ...

From the experimental results, it appears that the solutions of FP polymer have obtained better performance on keeping their rheological properties even after ...

“SURFACTANT -POLYMER INTERACTION FOR IMPROVED OIL ...

X-ray imaging of oil saturations during oil recovery experiments is ~ excellent technique to demonstrate the 'effect of mobility control on oil production ...

A novel Surfactant Polymer (SP)/Alkaline ... - University of Aberdeen

lation for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes. First,the effect of molecular weight, concentration, and temperature of PVA solution on ...

Study on interfacial tension, wettability and viscosity in different ...

Due to the decline of conventional hydrocarbon reserves, polymers are increasingly used in EOR methods, such as surfactant-polymer (SP) and ...

Polymer Flooding for Enhanced Oil Recovery - Stanford University

Polymers help increase the viscosity of the displacing liquid (water) to drive the displaced liquid (oil) to the production well. A variety of ...

Influence of viscosity ratio on enhanced oil recovery performance of ...

The viscosity ratio of polymer and oil is a crucial factor for polymer flooding, which can affect the water–oil mobility ratio and oil recovery.

Role of chemical additives and their rheological properties in ...

The principle of the chemical method of EOR involves injecting external chemical additives such as alkalis, surfactants, and polymers. This ...

Enhanced Oil Recovery: Chemical Flooding | IntechOpen

Soaps and surfactants produce emulsions that improve the sweep efficiency. Polymer and alkaline are reducing the surfactant adsorption. The polymer addition ...

What is surfactant polymer flooding? How do I do a research project ...

Surfactant polymer flooding is part of chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) which is part of EOR also known as improved oil recovery ...

Bringing Polymer Enhanced Oil Recovery Out of the Lab and Into ...

For example, alkaline-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding involves injecting alkaline and surfactant chemicals along with polymer to enhance the overall ...

The potential of polymer for enhanced oil recovery process on oil ...

Water salinity used to mix polymer solution is more important because it would directly affect polymer solution viscosity. Polymer injection is an improvement ...

Viability of Biopolymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery

as anionic surfactant has nearly no effect on the xanthan gum solution viscosity ... viscosity increase is observable in comparison to the surfactant-free polymer ...

Developments in green surfactants for enhanced oil recovery

Polymers increase the viscosity of the aqueous phase, thereby improving the ability of the solution to push oil out of pores on a macroscopic scale. Surfactants ...

Chemical enhanced oil recovery and the dilemma of more ... - Nature

It is shown that injection of polymer with or without surfactant can considerably reduce CO2 intensity of the mature waterflood projects by ...