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Technical papers

The following recent papers from Shell and industry research institutes provide a good overview of surfactant EOR and ENORDET surfactants for enhanced oil recovery.

ENORDET for chemical EOR

Application of Internal Olefin Sulfonates and Other Surfactants to EOR - Part 1: Industrial Production, Structure Performance Relationships, Handleability

Presented by Julian Barnes, Principal Researcher Higher Olefins and Derivatives/Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery, Shell Global Solutions International

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Application of Internal Olefin Sulfonates and Other Surfactants to EOR - Part 2: The Design and Execution of an ASP Field Test

Presented by Marten Buijse, Principal Research Chemist for Enhanced Oil Recovery, Shell Global Solutions International

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Alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding - Laboratory and single well chemical tracer test (SWCT) results

Presented by Rien Faber, Principal Research Chemist for Enhanced Oil Recovery, Shell Global Solutions International

Archive of Shell Chemicals presentations

The following documents are available on the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) website, access to this website being via subscription (details in the link).

Archive of Shell Chemicals presentations
SPE number Title Date Published by
SPE-159620 A New Approach to Deliver Highly Concentrated Surfactants for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery. Presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in San Antonio, Texas, USA 8-10 October 2012 Shell
SPE-154084 Controlled Hydrophobe Branching to Match Surfactant to Crude Oil Composition for Chemical EOR. Presented at the 2012 SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 14-18 April 2012 Shell
SPE-129769-PP Application of Internal Olefin Sulfonates and Other Surfactants to EOR. Part 2: The Design and Execution of an ASP Field Test". Presented at the 2010 SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 24–28 April 2010 Shell
SPE-129766-PP Application of Internal Olefin Sulfonates and Other Surfactants to EOR. Part 1: Structure - Performance Relationships for Selection at Different Reservoir Conditions. Presented at the 2010 SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 24–28 April 2010 Shell
SPE-129675-PP Surfactant systems for EOR for high salinity, high temperature environments. Presented at the 2010 SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 24–28 April 2010 Rice University and Shell
SPE-113314-PP Phase Behaviour Methods for the Evaluation of Surfactants for Chemical Flooding at Higher Temperature Reservoir Conditions. Presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 19–23 April 2008 Shell and Rice University
SPE-113313-PP Development of Surfactants for Chemical Flooding at Difficult Reservoir Conditions. Presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 19–23 April 2008 Shell and Rice University
SPE-100089 Identification and Evaluation of High Performance EOR Surfactants. Presented at the 2006 SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA 22-26 April 2006 University of Texas