A comprehensive review of low salinity/engineered water injections and their applications in sandstone and carbonate rocks

EW Al-Shalabi, K Sepehrnoori - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The low salinity/engineered water injection techniques (LSWI/EWI) have become one of the
most important research topics in the oil industry because of their possible advantages for …

A review of wettability alteration by spontaneous imbibition using low-salinity water in naturally fractured reservoirs

M Karimova, R Kashiri, P Pourafshary, R Hazlett - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Analysis of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs), as a highly heterogeneous and
complex system, requires a detailed study of the fracture-matrix interactions. The main …

From mineral surfaces and coreflood experiments to reservoir implementations: Comprehensive review of low-salinity water flooding (LSWF)

DA Afekare, M Radonjic - Energy & fuels, 2017 - ACS Publications
Low-salinity water flooding (LSWF) is an emerging and inexpensive enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) method. The technique hinges on the following concept: as salinity of injected water …

Modeling investigation of low salinity water injection in sandstones and carbonates: Effect of Na+ and SO42−

C Esene, D Onalo, S Zendehboudi, L James, A Aborig… - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Low salinity water injection (LSWI) has gained great attention as a promising enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) method with numerous advantages (eg, economic and environmental …

Geochemical controls on wettability alteration at pore-scale during low salinity water flooding in sandstone using X-ray micro computed tomography

Y Chen, NK Jha, D Al-Bayati, M Lebedev… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
We performed a pore-scale multiphase flow experiment on a sandstone core sample. We
imaged the core sample at initial oil saturation, residual oil saturations after high salinity and …

Literature Review of Hybrid CO2 Low Salinity Water-Alternating-Gas Injection and Investigation on Hysteresis Effect

S Ma, LA James - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Low salinity water injection (LSWI) is considered to be more cost-effective and has less
environmental impacts over conventional chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods …

Hybrid connectionist models to assess recovery performance of low salinity water injection

J Kondori, MI Miah, S Zendehboudi, F Khan… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
The low salinity water injection (LSWI) is one of the emerging enhanced oil recovery
techniques to improve both microscopic and macroscopic displacement efficiencies by …

Evaluation of CO2 low salinity water-alternating-gas for enhanced oil recovery

C Dang, L Nghiem, N Nguyen, Z Chen… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Low Salinity Waterflooding (LSW) is an emerging attractive enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) method because of its oil recovery performance and relatively simple …

Application of low-salinity waterflooding in carbonate cores: a geochemical modeling study

DIO Egbe, A Jahanbani Ghahfarokhi… - Natural Resources …, 2021 - Springer
Waterflooding is the most widely applied improved oil recovery technique. Recently, there
has been growing interest in the chemistry and ionic composition of the injected water. Low …

Optimization of injection water composition during low salinity water flooding in carbonate rocks: A numerical simulation study

Z Negahdari, S Khandoozi, M Ghaedi… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Low salinity water flooding as a novel enhanced oil recovery method has gained increased
attention especially during the past decade. Akin to other methods, low salinity water …