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Research Article

Experimental investigation on new derived natural surfactant: wettability alteration, IFT reduction, and core flooding in oil wet carbonate reservoir

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Pages 4282-4292 | Received 10 Feb 2019, Accepted 09 Aug 2019, Published online: 01 Oct 2019

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