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Enhanced Oil Recovery from the Bakken Shale Using Surfactant Imbibition Coupled with Gravity Drainage (09123-09)

University of North Dakota - Principal Investigator:  Dongmei Wang

Objective: The objective of this project is to determine whether surfactant solutions can alter the wettability of the Bakken shale (in North Dakota’s Williston Basin), so that oil  recovery can be enhanced by a mechanism involving imbibition and gravity drainage.
 
Period of Performance:  March 18, 2011 to March 18, 2014