A review of high‐temperature foam for improving steam flooding effect: mechanism and application of foam

F Zhao, K Wang, G Li, G Zhu, L Liu… - Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With the exploitation of light oil approaching saturation, the exploitation of heavy oil is of
particular importance. Thermal recovery technology is typically used in heavy oil recovery …

Characteristics of CO2 foam plugging and migration: Implications for geological carbon storage and utilization in fractured reservoirs

Z Xu, Z Li, Z Liu, B Li, Q Zhang, L Zheng, Y Song… - Separation and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fractured reservoirs exhibit heterogeneity and high conductivity, posing challenges to the
application of low-carbon and clean production technologies. In this study, the flow and …

Experimental investigation of CO2 foam flooding-enhanced oil recovery in fractured low-permeability reservoirs: Core-scale to pore-scale

D Zhu, B Li, L Chen, C Zhang, L Zheng, W Chen, Z Li - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Fractured low-permeability reservoirs are characterized by poor reservoir physical
properties, strong interlayer heterogeneity and the existence of natural and artificial …

Experimental study on the in-situ foam performance stabilized by microbial polysaccharide and its diverting characteristics at high temperature

J Zhu, J Zhou, Z Yang, X Li, Q Huang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Foam fluid shows good performance as diverting agent for reservoir stimulation, but complex
generation procedure and high flow friction restrict its further application especially in …

Visualization of CO2 foam generation, propagation and sweep in a complex 2D heterogeneous fracture network

F Jin, S Chen, B Wei, D Wang, W Yang, Y Wang, J Lu - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, a visual two-dimensional (2D) heterogeneous fracture network model was
designed to investigate CO 2 foam generation, propagation and sweep with two different …

Co-injection of foam and particles: An approach for bottom water control in fractured-vuggy reservoirs

J Wang, Y Feng, A Cao, J Zhang, D Chen - Processes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoirs are tectonically complex; their reservoirs are
dominated by holes and fractures, which are extremely nonhomogeneous and are difficultly …

CO2 mobility control improvement using N2-foam at high pressure and high temperature conditions

JS Solbakken, MG Aarra - International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2021 - Elsevier
The high mobility of CO 2 in porous media is an issue in most subsurface CO 2 projects
worldwide, demonstrated by uncontrolled and rapid migration through the reservoir, early …

Large-eddy simulation of a hydrocyclone with an air core using two-fluid and volume-of-fluid models

H Fayed, M Bukhari, S Ragab - Fluids, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Semi-implicit finite volume procedure for compositional subsurface flow simulation in highly anisotropic porous media

S Echavarría-Montaña, S Velásquez, N Bueno… - Fluids, 2021 - mdpi.com
Subsurface multiphase flow in porous media simulation is extensively used in many
disciplines. Large meshes with non-orthogonalities (eg, corner point geometries) and full …

A treatment protocol for controlling gas oil ratio in heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs by foam injection: Case study simulation

M Shojaiepour, F Rashidi, B Dabir… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, foam is selected to treat production wells of heterogeneous reservoirs that are
suffering from high amounts of gas oil ratio (GOR). To this end, a numerical study is carried …