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n: a method of improved recovery in which alkaline chemicals such as sodium hydroxide are injected during a water flood or combined with polymer flooding. The chemicals react with the natural acid present in certain crude oils to form surfactants within the reservoir. The surfactants enable the water to move additional quantities of oil from the depleted reservoir. Compare chemical flooding, polymer flooding, water flooding.

n: a substance capable of reacting with an acid to form a salt. A typical base is sodium hydroxide (caustic),with the chemical formula NaOH. For example, sodium hydroxide combines with hydrochloric acid to form sodium chloride (a salt) and water. This reaction is written chemically as NaOH + HCl -+ NaCI + H2O.

Soda ash, bicarbonate of soda, caustic soda and some phosphates. Act to reduce the effects of calcium in a fluid.

a strong base chemical. Caustic soda is sodium hydroxide.

n: See potassium hydroxide.

n: sodium hydroxide, NaOH. It is used to maintain an alkaline pH in drilling mud and in petroleum fractions.

n: See sodium hydroxide.

n: a vessel holding sodium hydroxide or other alkalis through which a solution flows for removal of sulphides, mercaptans, or acids.

n: see alkaline (caustic) flooding, micellarpolymer flQoding.

one of several methods involving injecting a chemical into a formation to improve the production of hydrocarbon. May be from an injection well to a production well or injection into a producer with a soak period before recovery.

n: mined lignite, usually leonardite, to which chromate has been added or has reacted. The lignite can also be causticised with either sodium or potassium hydroxide.

n: See chrome lignosulfonate.