Water-Soluble Polymers for Petroleum Recovery

We both found ourselves working on water-soluble polymers for oil recovery in the early 1980'' s. Our previ ous backgrounds i nvo 1 ved the synthesi sand characteri zati on of hydrocarbon polymers for everythi ng from elastomers to plastics. As such, we were largely unprepared for the special difficulties associated with water soluble polymers in genera 1, and thei ruse in enhanced oi 1 recovery (...