Application of sustainable foaming agents to control the mobility of carbon dioxide in enhanced oil recovery

• Main Authors: Rafati, Roozbeh, Hamidi, Hossein, Idris, Ahmad Kamal, Manan, Muhammad A.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute 2012
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31683/1/MuhammadAManan2012_ApplicationofSustainableFoamingAgents.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31683/; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpe.2012.11.010

Carbon dioxide (CO2) flooding is a conventional process in which the CO2 is injected into the oil reservoir to increase the quantity of extracting oil. This process also controls the amount of released CO2 as a greenhouse gas in the atmosphere which is known as CO2 sequestration process. However, th...