“…The long life-time of such microbubbles is achieved as a result of four effects: the low diffusivity and the low solubility of the suitable gas in water solutions, the vanishing surface tension of the gas-liquid interface and the hardening (increase of elasticity) of the bubble shell. If one tries to transfer these stabilization techniques to reservoir conditions he would inevitably arrive at two possibilities: apply hard shell bubbles like hollow glass spheres [2] or generate soft shell bubbles like colloidal gas aphrons (CGA) which are capable of rearranging (reinforcing) their shells in response to pressure increase [3]. The former is obviously the most expensive case, moreover its disadvantage lies in the fact that the hard particles remaining intact during production operations can get accumulated, block pores and thus decrease permeability near injection wells.…”