I: Fundamental Aspects of the Oil Displacement Process. - Research on Enhanced Oil Recovery: Past Present and Future. - The Physico-Chemical Conditions Necessary to Produce Ultralow Interfacial Tension at the Oil/Brine Interface. - Further Studies on Phase Relationships in Chemical Flooding. - Selection of Components for an Optimal Micellar System in Reservoir Conditions. - The Effect of Salt Alcohol and Surfactant on Optimum Middle Phase Composition. - II: Microstructure of Surfactant Systems. - Formation and Properties of Micelles and Microemulsions. - X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering by Microemulsions. - Light Scattering Study of Adsorption of Surfactant Molecules at Oil-Water Interface. - An Experimental Investigation of Stability of Microemulsions and Polydispersity Effects Using Light-Scattering Spectroscopy and Small Angle X-Ray Scattering. - Dielectric and Conductive Properties of Water-in-Oil Type Microemulsions. - Measurement of Low Interfacial Tension Between Crude Oil and Formation Water with Dissolved Surfactants by the Spinning Drop Technique: Fact or Fiction?. - III: Emulsion Rheology and Oil Displacement Mechanisms. - The Effect of Film-Forming Materials on the Dynamic Interfacial Properties in Crude Oil-Aqueous Systems. - Recovery Mechanisms of Alkaline Flooding. - The Role of Alkaline Chemicals in Oil Displacement Mechanisms. - Interfacial Rheological Properties of Crude Oil/Water Systems. - Porous Media Rheology of Emulsions in Tertiary Oil Recovery. - Rheological Properties of Interfacial Layers Formed by Iron and Aluminum Soaps Used in Reversible Emulsions in Petroleum Industry. - IV: Wettability and Oil Displacement Mechanisms. - Effect of Viscous and Buoyancy Forces on Nonwetting Phase Trapping in Porous Media. - Dependence of Residual Oil Mobilization on Wetting and Roughness. - Experimental Investigation of Two-Liquid Relative Permeability and Dye Adsorption Capacity Versus Saturation Relationships in Untreated and Dri-Film-Treated Sandstone Samples. - Wettability of and Oil Film Stability on Glass Capillaries as Basic Processes in Tertiary Oil Recovery. - The Influence of Interfacial Properties on Immiscible Displacement Behavior. - Effect of Alcohols on the Equilibrium Properties and Dynamics of Micellar Solutions. - The Effect of Alcohol on Surfactant Mass Transfer Across the Oil/Brine Interface and Related Phenomena. - Complex Acids and Their Interaction with Clays in Oil Sands Slimes. - On the Coalescence Characteristics of Low Tension Oil-Water-Surfactant Systems. - Thin Films and Fluid Distribution in Porous Media. - On the Fate of Oil Ganglia During Immiscible Displacement in Water Wet Granular Porous Media. - V: Adsorption Clays and Chemical Loss Mechanisms. - Precipitation and Redissolution of Sulfonates and Their Role in Adsorption on Minerals. - The Effect of Microemulsion Composition on the Adsorption of Petroleum Sulfonates on Berea Sand/Montmorillonite Clay Adsorbents. - Adsorption of Pure Surfactant and Petroleum Sulfonate at the Solid-Liquid Interface. - Ion Exchange on Mixed Ionic Forms of Montmorillonite at High Ionic Strengths. - Permeability Reduction in Water Sensitivity of Sandstones. - VI: Polymer Rheology and Surfactant-Polymer Interactions. - Synthetic Random and Graft Copolymers for Utilization in Enhanced Oil RecoverySynthesis and Rheology. - Response of Mobility Control Agents to Shear Electrochemical and Biological Stress. - Factors Influencing Polyacrylamide Adsorption in Porous Media and Their Effect on Flow Behavior. - Optimal Salinity of Polymer Solution in Surfactant-Polymer Flooding Process. -Polymer-Surfactant Interaction and Its Effect on the Mobilization of Capillary-Trapped Oil. Language: English