Pore-scale distribution of crude oil wettability in carbonate rocks

R Marathe, ML Turner, A Fogden - Energy & fuels, 2012 - ACS Publications
… of pore-scale wettability, a set of outcrop and reservoir carbonate plugs was treated by partial
drainage of brine by crude oil and aging, for a variety of brine–oil … down to the pore scale. …

Direct pore-scale visualization of interactions between different crude oils and low salinity brine

P Mahzari, M Sohrabi, AJ Cooke, A Carnegie - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Out of four crude oils investigated in this study, three crude oils were contacted with brines …
-in-oil micro-dispersions. To determine the quantity of micro-dispersions formed, the crude oil

A pore-scale investigation of heavy crude oil trapping and removal during surfactant-enhanced remediation

J Ghosh, GR Tick, NH Akyol, Y Zhang - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
pore-scale trapping mechanisms and changes in oil distribution and morphology affecting
heavy crude oil … SXM imaging was applied to determine the pore scale distribution and …

Pore-scale modelling of the coupled thermal and reactive flow at the combustion front during crude oil in-situ combustion

Q Xu, W Long, H Jiang, C Zan, J Huang, X Chen… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
… combustion process for the crude oil recovery. The understanding … In the present study, a
pore-scale modelling of the combustion … Pore-scale simulation was then performed to model the …

Pore-scale modeling of wettability effects and their influence on oil recovery

AB Dixit, SR McDougall, KS Sorbie… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 1999 - onepetro.org
… and then oil flooded to initial water saturation using crude oil. … alteration on the pore level
displacements of oil and water is … of various pore scale phenomena at the macroscopic scale; eg…

A pore scale investigation of crude oil distribution and removal from homogeneous porous media during surfactant-induced remediation

J Ghosh, GR Tick - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2013 - Elsevier
… The purpose of this research was to understand how pore-scale trapping parameters and
changes in NAPL (ie LNAPL systems) blob distribution and morphology affect crude oil

[HTML][HTML] Pore-scale imaging and modelling

MJ Blunt, B Bijeljic, H Dong, O Gharbi, S Iglauer… - Advances in Water …, 2013 - Elsevier
… to the field scale. We conclude that pore-scale modelling is likely to become more widely
applied in the oil industry including assessment of unconventional oil and gas resources. It has …

Pore-scale modeling: Effects of wettability on waterflood oil recovery

X Zhao, MJ Blunt, J Yao - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2010 - Elsevier
… A series of rock samples were initially filled with water and then flooded with crude oil to
some initial water saturation S wi between 0.079 and 0.32. All the cores were aged to alter their …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of water salinity differential on a crude oil droplet constrained in a capillary: Pore-scale mechanisms

L Yan, H Aslannejad, SM Hassanizadeh, A Raoof - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
crude oil contains salty water initially dispersed in crude oil, we hypothesize that the chemical
osmosis could occur when the crude oil is … If we assume the oil as an ideal semi permeable …

Pore-Scale Investigation of Crude Oil/CO2 Compositional Effects on Oil Recovery by Carbonated Water Injection

M Seyyedi, M Sohrabi - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2017 - ACS Publications
crude oil, and we have observed the formation and growth of a new gaseous phase inside
the oil … the effect of this phenomenon on oil recovery by CWI at pore scale. In this paper, we …