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Recent advancements in surfactants for chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) are presented. For oils with a high equivalent alkane carbon number (EACN), surfactants with very large hydrophobes are needed to obtain the ultra-low interfacial tensions needed to reduce the residual oil saturation to nearly zero. The need increases at high temperature. Furthermore, these large hydrophobes need to be branched...