Oil & Natural Gas Projects Exploration and Production
Technologies Investigation of Phase & Emulsion Behavior,
Surfactant Retention, Condensate/Water/Ethanol This project was
selected under DOE's Historically Black Colleges and
Universities The project goal was to characterize the phase and
emulsion behavior, surfactant retention, and condensate recovery
for cosurfactants such as ethanol, crucial factors for
increasing recovery of condensate in gas-condensate fields.
Phase work would obtain optimal salinity and temperature in
which all three phases coexist. These tests were to be performed
with a condensate and with a comparable refined hydrocarbon, for
varying concentrations of brine and cosurfactant (ethanol) and
for a wide range of temperatures within the reported bound seen
in gas-condensate Phase work was completed, including salinity
and temperature scans and coreflooding experiments. An
experimental system for electrical conductivity measurements was
set up, tested, and calibrated. Conductivity measure