[HTML][HTML] A critical review of carbonate reservoir wettability modification during low salinity waterflooding

PI Sagbana, K Sarkodie, WA Nkrumah - Petroleum, 2023 - Elsevier
The nature of carbonate reservoirs promotes the adsorption of oil onto the rock surface
hence making oil recovery a challenge even with the interventions of varied chemical EOR …

Identification of novel applications of chemical compounds to change the wettability of reservoir rock: A critical review

E Jafarbeigi, S Ayatollahi, Y Ahmadi… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although significant efforts have been made in research areas related to Enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) and the role of rock wettability alteration (WA) at reservoir conditions using …

Review of low salinity waterflooding mechanisms: Wettability alteration and its impact on oil recovery

F Liu, M Wang - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Low salinity waterflooding (LSW) has attracted attention of numerous researchers as a
promising technique for enhanced oil recovery, yet its application is still limited because of …

Impact of anionic surfactant on stability, viscoelastic moduli, and oil recovery of silica nanofluid in saline environment

RS Kumar, KR Chaturvedi, S Iglauer… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Controlling nanofluid stability in saline environment has been a long-standing challenge as
salt ions screen-out the surface charge of the nanoparticles (NPs), rendering them unstable …

Experimental investigation on fluid/fluid and rock/fluid interactions in enhanced oil recovery by low salinity water flooding for carbonate reservoirs

RK Saw, A Mandal - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The low salinity water flooding (LSWF) technique has established itself as cost-effective and
environment-friendly in nature but its mechanisms are still unclear. Recovery due to LSWF …

[HTML][HTML] Application of surfactants in enhancing oil recovery from tight carbonates: Physicochemical properties and core flooding experiments

O Massarweh, AS Abushaikha - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Surfactant formulations are optimized according to reservoir conditions to ensure their
efficiency in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). This experimental study aimed to examine the …

Surfactant selection for enhanced oil recovery based on surfactant molecular structure in unconventional liquid reservoirs

W Chen, DS Schechter - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental observations and field applications have revealed that surfactants have
significant potential to enhance oil recovery in unconventional liquid reservoirs (ULR). This …

New insight into foam stability enhancement mechanism, using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and nanoparticles

B Dehdari, R Parsaei, M Riazi, N Rezaei… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Foam stability is critical when using foams to reduce the gas mobility and to increase the oil
sweep efficiency, under harsh reservoir conditions. In this paper, we formulated foam …

Experimental investigations to evaluate surfactant role on absorption capacity of nanofluid for CO2 utilization in sustainable crude mobilization

KR Chaturvedi, R Narukulla, M Amani, T Sharma - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) utilization for oilfield applications is affected by viscous fingering
which leads to premature breakthrough without showing any appreciable impact on oil …

Determination of bubble point pressure and oil formation volume factor: Extra trees compared with LSSVM-CSA hybrid and ANFIS models

M Seyyedattar, MM Ghiasi, S Zendehboudi, S Butt - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Successful field development relies on effective reservoir management, which, in turn, is, to
a great extent, influenced by the knowledge of reservoir fluid properties and phase …