Status of surfactant EOR technology

James J. Sheng

doi:10.1016/j.petlm.2015.07.003

Status of surfactant EOR technology

James J. Sheng

Petroleum Engineering

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Abstract

Surfactant enhanced oil recovery (EOR) includes surfactant flooding and surfactant stimulation. The main functions of surfactants are to reduce interfacial tension and wettability alteration. This paper is to review the EOR technology related to surfactant injection.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-105
Number of pages	9
Journal	Petroleum
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petlm.2015.07.003
State	Published - Jun 2015

Keywords

Chemical EOR
Enhanced oil recovery
Review
Surfactant EOR
Surfactant flooding

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