Experimental investigation on effect of reservoir conditions on stability and rheology of carbon dioxide foams of nonionic surfactant and polymer: Implications of carbon …

A Pandey, ASK Sinha, KR Chaturvedi, T Sharma - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbon dioxide (CO 2) injection, in form of a viscous foam, is one of the effective
techniques to control premature CO 2 breakthrough in subsurface carbon storage and …

A feasible visual investigation for associative foam>⧹ polymer injectivity performances in the oil recovery enhancement

A Davarpanah - European Polymer Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
In the coming decades, regarding the enormous demands of fossil fuels in numerous
industries, petroleum engineers try to find novel solutions to produced more oil volume and …

Laboratory tests and field pilot of foam-assisted deoxidized-air flooding in a low-permeability sandstone reservoir

W Xiao, J Ren, W Pu, C Yuan, L Meng, L Zheng… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Foam-assisted deoxidized-air flooding is a promising technique for improving oil recovery,
particularly in low-permeability oil reservoirs. However, significant differences in …

Computational study on the three phase displacement characteristics of foam fluids in porous media

Y Li, D Zhao, D Du - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Foam technology has shown great potentials not only on enhancing oil recovery (EOR) but
also on the Carbon Capture Storage Utilization (CCUS) applications. In this paper, the foam …

A comparative analysis of the effect of nanoparticles/surfactant assisted foam injection on the gas mobility control at different heterogeneities

S Khandoozi, P Pourafshary, S Aidarova, A Sharipova - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Foam flooding is a popular method for increasing oil recovery in reservoirs with varying
levels of heterogeneity. One common foam flooding technique is surfactant-assisted foam …

A new thermal stable and salt tolerant alkyl polyether benzyl sulfonate surfactant with ultralow interfacial tensions for enhanced oil recovery

XN Bao, YC Li, WD Zhang, H Zhang, HZ Gang… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A large variety of surfactants have been widely used in enhanced oil recovery, yet there is
still a challenge for the application of surfactants in oil reservoirs with high salinity and high …

Estimation of local equilibrium model parameters for simulation of the laboratory foam-enhanced oil recovery process using a commercial reservoir simulator

L Ding, L Cui, S Jouenne, O Gharbi, M Pal, H Bertin… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
An accurate determination of the foam simulation parameters is crucial in modeling foam
flow in porous media. In this paper, we present an integrated workflow to obtain the …

Study on enhanced oil recovery by multi-component foam flooding

C Zhang, P Wang, G Song - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
To obtain a foam system with better stability and oil resistance, this paper starts with the
mechanism of enhanced oil recovery by foam flooding and makes use of a combination of …

Influence of the injection scheme on the enhanced oil recovery ability of heterogeneous phase combination flooding in mature waterflooded reservoirs

W Liu, H He, F Yuan, H Liu, F Zhao, H Liu, G Luo - ACS omega, 2022 - ACS Publications
With the maturity of waterflooded reservoirs, owing to serious heterogeneity, the fluid will
channel through the thief zone, leading to considerable remaining oil unrecovered in the …

Synergistic effects between anionic and sulfobetaine surfactants for stabilization of foams tolerant to crude oil in foam flooding

X Liu, Z Chen, Z Cui - Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In foam flooding, foams stabilized by conventional surfactants are usually unstable in
contacting with crude oil, which behaves as a strong defoaming agent. In this article …