The Screening Test Interfacial Tension of Palm Based Surfactant for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Application
Abstract: Sodium Methyl Ester
Sulfonate (SMES) surfactant is one type of anionic surfactant which has
advantages in terms of detergency, hardness, renewable and
environment-friendly. Excesssurfactant SMES could be utilized in the process of
oil displacement through EOR technology (Enhanced Oil Recovery / Tertiary
Recovery) which is a technology that involves the injection of amaterial that
can cause changes in fluid properties and reservoir rocks such as oil
composition, temperature, ratio mobility and characteristics rock-fluid
interactions. The use of SMES Surfactant is intended to determine the value of
interfacial tension (IFT) between oil-water so as to lift the oil to come out
of the pores of reservoir rocks. The EOR surfactant must meet one of the
testing parameter screening is the IFT measurement. The surfactant formulation
determining by optimum rangeconcentration from 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%,
0.6%, 0.7%, 0.8%, 0.9% and 1% of SMEs w/w dissolved with formation water or
water injection by heating to 50 °C solution temperature is reached. The best
screening results contained at a concentration of 0.3% with a IFT value
<10-3 dyne / cm.
Author: Agatha Maria Gadi1,
Erliza Hambali
Journal Code: jpkimiagg170007
