Table 9 Secondary and tertiary recovery factors during the flooding process using different concentrations of the new surfactant agent.

From: Enhanced oil recovery from sandstone reservoir using cationic hyperbranched polyamidoamine dendrimer surfactant flooding under real reservoir conditions

Parameter

Plug (A)

(1 g/l)

Plug (B)

(1.5 g/l)

Plug (C)

(2 g/l)

Vo injected, cc

5.55

6.7

6.5

Vo recovered by PM and SM, cc

3.25

3.85

3.75

Vo remain, cc

2.3

2.85

2.75

Recovered oil by TM, cc

RFPM+SM (%OOIP)

RFTM (%OOIP)

RFTotal (%OOIP)

Remaining oil (%OOIP)

A

B

C

A

B

C

A

B

C

A

B

C

A

B

C

0.5

0.78

0.8

58.55

57.46

57.69

9.01

11.64

12.31

67.56

69.10

70.00

32.44

30.90

30.00