Heavy oil is estimated to account for about 70% of the remaining oil reserves and
considered as the most promising and readily available oil resource to meet energy …

Thermal techniques remain to be one of the most successful recovery methods for heavy oil
production. Nanotechnology has opened an opportunity to take the advantage of thermal …

This study investigates the impact of process conditions, specifically temperature, pressure,
and duration, on the composition and properties of high-viscosity oil extracted from the …

In the current context, the growing interest of the scientific community in the application of
nanoparticles focused on enhanced oil recovery highlights the need to explore and analyze …

The hybrid thermal-chemical method of nanocatalytic aquathermolysis is one of the newest
methods, which is proposed to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) from heavy oil reservoirs. To …

The numerical simulation of reservoirs is usually used to develop the best strategy to
implement new steam injection technologies, such as cyclic steam simulation enhanced with …

Regarding aquathermolysis, most of the published numerical simulation models point out
toward the overall changes in the liquid phase composition. These changes are mostly …

Large-eddy simulations have been conducted for two-phase flow (water and air) in a
hydrocyclone using Two-Fluid (Euler–Euler) and Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) models. Subgrid …

Subsurface multiphase flow in porous media simulation is extensively used in many
disciplines. Large meshes with non-orthogonalities (eg, corner point geometries) and full …

Las reservas de petróleo hoy en día se encuentran integradas en gran medida por aceites
pesados y extrapesados, de los cuales se obtienen pequeñas cantidades en su producción …