A review of development methods and EOR technologies for carbonate reservoirs

ZX Xu, SY Li, BF Li, DQ Chen, ZY Liu, ZM Li - Petroleum Science, 2020 - Springer
Carbonate reservoirs worldwide are complex in structure, diverse in form, and highly
heterogeneous. Based on these characteristics, the reservoir stimulation technologies and …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances on the application of low salinity waterflooding and chemical enhanced oil recovery

A Gbadamosi, S Patil, D Al Shehri, MS Kamal… - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is used to retrieve capillary trapped and bypassed oil in the
reservoir. Accordingly, laboratory and field applications of chemical EOR (CEOR) methods …

Impact of nanotechnology on enhanced oil recovery: A mini-review

MY Rezk, NK Allam - Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 2019 - ACS Publications
The major challenges facing oil production during/after secondary recovery include oil
entrapment by water and high water mobility. Hence, currently, Enhanced Oil Recovery …

A comprehensive review of viscoelastic polymer flooding in sandstone and carbonate rocks

M Zeynalli, M Mushtaq, EW Al-Shalabi, U Alfazazi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Polymer flooding is a proven chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (cEOR) method that boosts
oil production beyond waterflooding. Thorough theoretical and practical knowledge has …

Updated perceptions on polymer-based enhanced oil recovery toward high-temperature high-salinity tolerance for successful field applications in carbonate reservoirs

AM Hassan, EW Al-Shalabi, MA Ayoub - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The aging of the existing reservoirs makes the hydrocarbon extraction shift toward newer
reserves, and harsh conditioned carbonates, which possess high temperature and high …

Surfactant-augmented functional silica nanoparticle based nanofluid for enhanced oil recovery at high temperature and salinity

Y Zhou, X Wu, X Zhong, W Sun, H Pu… - ACS applied materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanofluids in recent years have shown great potential as a chemical enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) technology, thanks to their excellent performance in altering interfacial properties …

Matching between the diameter of the aggregates of hydrophobically associating polymers and reservoir pore-throat size during polymer flooding in an offshore …

K Xie, B Cao, X Lu, W Jiang, Y Zhang, Q Li… - Journal of petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
In order to quantitatively study the matching between hydrophobically associating polymers
(HAPs) and reservoir pore-throat size in offshore oilfields, the geological characteristics and …

Mechanistic modeling of hybrid low salinity polymer flooding: Role of geochemistry

EW Al-Shalabi, W Alameri, AM Hassan - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Low salinity polymer (LSP) based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique is getting more
attention due to its potential of improving both displacement and sweep efficiencies …

Effect of profile-control oil-displacement agent on increasing oil recovery and its mechanism

W Cao, K Xie, X Lu, Y Liu, Y Zhang - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, chemical flooding has become significant in oilfield development. As its
scope of application gets wider, choosing the proper chemical agent becomes an issue for …

Oil recovery by low-salinity polymer flooding in carbonate oil reservoirs

Y Lee, W Lee, Y Jang, W Sung - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Low-salinity polymer flooding (LSPF) is a promising enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method
with a synergetic effect of combining the polymer injection and low-salinity water injection …