Surfactants and Acids Formulated Around Your Formation, Your Water, and Your Production Targets
AET’s oilfield surfactants and acids are designed formation- and application-specific, supporting compatibility across varying water types, salinities, and temperature ranges
Every formulation is built by the downhole chemistry experts at the AET Innovation Center and tuned with instrumentation dedicated to surfactant performance, then validated at plant scale before it ships.
Surfactants and Acids Applications
For flowback enhancement, wettability alteration, emulsion breaking, and
much more completions, drilling, and production applications.
Flowback enhancement
Reduce interfacial tension and water blocks to recover stimulation fluid faster and bring wells online sooner
Emulsion breaking
Non-emulsifying and emulsion-inhibiting additives that prevent and resolve emulsions from frac operations and early production
Wettability alteration
Mildly water-wetting chemistry that repels oil from the rock face and improves initial production in tight fractures
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
Surfactant systems customized for temperature tolerance and hydrocarbon compatibility in mature and high-brine assets
Frequently asked questions
Oilfield surfactants reduce interfacial tension between oil, water, and rock. This frees trapped hydrocarbons, improves fluid recovery after fracturing, alters formation wettability, and prevents emulsions increasing early production rates and total recovery from the well.
Emulsion breaking separates oil that has mixed with water or frac fluid into stable emulsions, which choke production and complicate fluid handling. AET's additives both prevent emulsions from forming and break existing ones with up to 4x faster separation in independent lab testing.
Yes. In EOR applications, surfactants lower the interfacial tension holding residual oil in the reservoir, mobilizing barrels that waterflooding leaves behind. AET customizes EOR surfactants for temperature tolerance, salinity, and hydrocarbon compatibility in each specific formation.
Yes. AET surfactants are optimized for high-brine and variable-salinity environments and are formulated against your actual water sample at the AET Innovation Center, ensuring compatibility with common mix waters, stimulation fluids, and other additives.