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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
George Kalfoglou, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc., White Plains, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
252 / ; 166275 ; 2604 / ; 2604 / ; 2605 / ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a novel surfactant, a method for making the surfactant and an aqueous fluid containing the surfactant which is effective for recovering petroleum from a high temperature formation containing high salinity water. The surfactant fluid is an aqueous fluid containing an organic sulfonate such as petroleum sulfonate and a solubilizing cosurfactant which is a sulfated or sulfonated, polyethoxylated alkylthiol, or a sulfated or sulfonated, polyethoxylated alkylarylthiol.