Related Oil & Gas Terms

• Solution

  Single, homogenous liquid, solid, or gas phase that is a mixture in which the components (liquid, gas, solid, or combinations thereof) are uniformly distributed throughout the mixture. in a solution, the dissolved substance is called the solute; the substance in which the solute is dissolved is called the solvent....

• Colloid

  1. a substance whose particles are so fine that they will not settle out of suspension or solution and cannot be seen under an ordinary microscope. 2. the mixture of a colloid and the liquid, gaseous, or solid medium in which it is dispersed....

• Ph value

  A unit of measure of the acid of alkaline condition of a substance. a neutral solution (such as pure water) has a ph of 7; add solutions are less than 7; basic, or alkaline, solutions are more than 7. the ph scale is a logarithmic scale. a substance with a ph of 4 is more...

• Normal solution

  A solution that contains 1 gram-equivalent of a substance per liter of solution....

• Micellar-polymer flooding

  A method of improved oil recovery in which chemicals dissolved in water are pumped into a reservoir through injection wells to mobilize off left behind after primary or secondary recovery and to move it toward production wells. the chemical solution includes surfactants or surfactant-forming chemicals that reduce the interfacial and capillary forces between oil and...