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Title: Method for recovering oil from an underground formation

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6450226

Method for recovering oil from an underground formation consisting of blocks of relatively low permeability with an oilwet pore space containing oil surrounded by a fracture network of relatively high permeability by supplying to the fracture network an aqueous solution of a surfactant adapted for decreasing the surface tension between water and oil and displacing the oil from the oil-wet pore space of the blocks.

Assignee:
National Iranian Oil Co (Iran); Shell Internationale Res Maatschappij B V (Netherlands)
Patent Number(s):
US 4364431
OSTI ID:
6450226
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 17 Dec 1980; Other Information: PAT-APPL-217445
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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