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20080312121 | Liquid Surface Active Compositions - A liquid surface active composition which is comprised of an alcohol ethoxysulfate, an alcohol ethoxylate, c) an additive which is triethanolamine or a diol comprised of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms and which has a molecular weight of 75 to 225, and water. | 12-18-2008 |
20090203557 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY - The present invention provides a method of treating a hydrocarbon containing formation comprising (a) providing a hydrocarbon recovery composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation, wherein the composition comprises one or more internal olefin sulfonates having 17 or more carbon atoms, (b) adding water and/or brine from the hydrocarbon formation to the composition, (c) adding a solubilizer which comprises an ethoxylated alcohol wherein the alcohol before ethoxylation had an average molecular weight of at least about 220 and (d) allowing the composition to interact with hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon containing formation. The solubilizer may comprise less than about 0.1 wt %, preferably from about 0.02 to about 0.05 wt %, of the total composition and it may have from about 5 to about 9 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of alcohol. | 08-13-2009 |
20090203558 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY - A method of treating a hydrocarbon containing formation is described. The method includes (a) providing a hydrocarbon recovery composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation, wherein (i) when the salinity of the brine is from about 2 wt % to about 4 wt %, the composition comprises a blend of a C | 08-13-2009 |
20110017462 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY - A method of treating a hydrocarbon containing formation, comprising (a) providing a composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation, wherein the composition comprises a glycerol sulfonate of a propoxylated primary alcohol having a branched aliphatic group with an average carbon number from 10 to 24 and having an average number of branches per aliphatic group of from 0.7 to 2.5 and having at least 0.5 moles of propylene oxide per mole of primary alcohol; and (b) allowing the composition to interact with hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon containing formation. | 01-27-2011 |
20110021389 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY - A method of treating a hydrocarbon containing formation, comprising (a) providing a hydrocarbon recovery composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation, wherein the hydrocarbon recovery composition comprises a propoxylated composition which comprises (1) a glycerol sulfonate of a propoxylated primary alcohol having a branched aliphatic group with an average carbon number from 10 to 24 and having an average number of branches per aliphatic group of from 0.7 to 2.5 and having at least 0.5, preferably from 3 to 12, moles of propylene oxide per mole of primary alcohol and (2) polypropylene glycol; provided that the primary alcohol is propoxylated by contacting the alcohol with propylene oxide in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of one or more of the phosphate salts of lanthanum series elements or the rare earth elements, preferably a carbonate salt thereof, wherein the propoxylated composition comprising the propoxylated alcohol and from 1 to 30 wt % of polypropylene glycol is produced; and (b) allowing the composition to interact with hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon containing formation. | 01-27-2011 |
20110028359 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY - A method of treating a hydrocarbon containing formation, comprising (a) providing a composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation, wherein the composition comprises a derivative selected from the group consisting of a carboxylate or a sulfate or glycerol sulfonate of an ethoxylated/propoxylated primary alcohol having a branched aliphatic group with an average carbon number from 10 to 24 and having an average number of branches per aliphatic group of from 0.7 to 2.5 and having at least 0.5 moles of propylene oxide per mole of primary alcohol and having at least 0.5 moles of ethylene oxide per mole of primary alcohol; and (b) allowing the composition to interact with hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon containing formation. | 02-03-2011 |
20110092406 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A SECONDARY ALCOHOL CLEANING PRODUCT - A process for making a useful cleaning product from an alkoxylate of a secondary alcohol which comprises: (a) partially sulfating a secondary alcohol alkoxylate with sulfur trioxide in a falling film sulfation reactor at a molar ratio of sulfur trioxide to secondary alcohol alkoxylate of less than 0.9 to produce a mixture comprising a sulfuric acid ester of the secondary alcohol alkoxylate and secondary alcohol alkoxylate which may comprise at least 50 percent by weight of the sulfuric acid ester of the secondary alcohol alkoxylate, (b) combining the mixture with a neutralizing agent in an amount sufficient to neutralize the sulfuric acid ester, and (c) optionally adding water to yield a useful cleaning product. | 04-21-2011 |
20120181025 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY FROM A VERY HIGH SALINITY, HIGH TEMPERATURE FORMATION - A method of treating a very high salinity high temperature hydrocarbon containing formation is described. The method includes (a) providing a hydrocarbon recovery composition to at least a portion of a hydrocarbon containing formation having a brine salinity of above about 13 wt % and a temperature of above about 7° C., wherein the composition comprises a C | 07-19-2012 |
20130296201 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY - An injectable fluid for treating a hydrocarbon containing formation is described. The injectable fluid includes ((i) when the salinity of the brine is from about 2 wt % to about 4 wt %, a composition that comprises a blend of a C | 11-07-2013 |
20140005082 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY FROM A FORMATION CONTAINING A CRUDE OIL | 01-02-2014 |
20140290953 | METHOD AND COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBONS RECOVERY FROM A FORMATION CONTAINING A CRUDE OIL - A hydrocarbon recovery composition comprising vinylidene olefin sulfonates is described. A method of treating a crude oil formation and a method of preparing the hydrocarbon recovery composition are also described. | 10-02-2014 |
20140367096 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED HYDROCARBON RECOVERY - The invention relates to a hydrocarbon recovery composition comprising an anionic surfactant, wherein said composition is in the solid state, and to a shaped article comprising said composition. Preferably, said composition is in the form of a powder. Further, the invention relates to a process for treating a hydrocarbon containing formation comprising the steps of a) transporting said composition or shaped article to the location of the hydrocarbon containing formation; b) dissolving said composition or shaped article in water thereby forming an aqueous fluid containing the hydrocarbon recovery composition; c) providing the aqueous fluid containing the hydrocarbon recovery composition to at least a portion of the hydrocarbon containing formation; and d) allowing the hydrocarbon recovery composition to interact with the hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon containing formation. | 12-18-2014 |
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20130075350 | DEVICES FOR FACILITATING INSTALLATION AND/OR REMOVAL OF COMPONENTS IN AN EQUIPMENT RACK - A device for facilitating the movement of a component into or out of an equipment rack includes a device body, a securing system coupled to the device body and configured for releasably securing the device to a post of the equipment rack, and at least one wheel rotationally coupled to the device body. In a mounted position of the device in which the device is secured to the equipment rack post, the at least one wheel physically supports a component and facilitate movement of the component into or out of the equipment rack. | 03-28-2013 |
20130343207 | DYNAMIC LATENCY ANALYSIS SYSTEM - An automated method for analyzing a plurality of network messages received by a network testing device is disclosed. The method may comprise, during a current window of time, receiving from a target network device a network message associated with an original network message determining a latency value for the received network message comparing the determined latency value with the threshold latency value; and incrementing either the first counter or the second counter based on the comparison of the determined latency value with a threshold latency value. The method may further comprise, at the end of the current window of time, storing the first and second counter values resulting from the analysis of the plurality of original network messages. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346756 | BRANDING A COMMODITY DRIVE - A computer implemented method for branding a commodity drive may include reading a unique identifier from a drive, partitioning the drive into a first partition and a second partition, combining the unique identifier with a secret to form an encoded value, and writing the encoded value to the first partition. | 12-26-2013 |
20130346987 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING TASKS AND/OR PROCESSING RECOURCES IN A SYSTEM - A method is provided for managing the execution of tasks by a system having multiple processors, each having multiple types of resources. The method may include receiving from a user a task configuration specifying one or more performance parameters for a proposed task, automatically determining for each type of resource a quantity of that resource corresponding to the performance parameters for the proposed task, automatically determining for each processor a quantity of each type of resource available to that processor, automatically comparing for processor (a) the quantity of each type of resource available to that processor with (b) the quantity of each type of resource corresponding to the performance parameters for the proposed task, automatically determining based on the comparisons whether any processor has capacity to perform the proposed task, and automatically determining whether to perform the proposed task based at least on whether any processor has capacity to perform the task. | 12-26-2013 |