Abstract: This specification discloses a waterflooding process for producing oil from an oil-containing subterranean formation penetrated by an injection well and a production well. An aqueous solution of a copolymer formed of hydrophobic olefinic segments and cationic aromatic hydrophilic segments is injected into and driven through the formation in the production of oil therefrom.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 1977
Date of Patent:
August 29, 1978
Assignee:
Mobil Oil Corporation
Inventors:
Frederick C. Schwab, Edward W. Sheppard, Catherine S. H. Chen