Nearly half of the world's oil reserves are found in carbonate reservoirs, which have
heterogeneous formation characteristics and are naturally fractured. Because of the …

Nanofluid offers more opportunities and challenges over the traditional surfactant and
polymer solutions during enhanced oil recovery (commonly referred to as tertiary oil …

The major challenges facing oil production during/after secondary recovery include oil
entrapment by water and high water mobility. Hence, currently, Enhanced Oil Recovery …

Nanoparticles are extensively used at lab scale to improve physicochemical characteristics
like interfacial tension, wettability, rheological behavior in different hydrocarbon recovery …

The Surface engineering of nanoparticles has contributed to the development of
nanoscience and nanotechnology by designing of new material depends on their surface …

Oil reservoirs around the world are facing issues with the extraction ability of the accessible
natural resources in the oil fields. Recent investigations on oil recovery have revealed that …

As oil fields go into their final stage of production, new technologies are necessary to sustain
production and increase the recovery of the hydrocarbon. Chemical injection is an …

Industrial-based molecular separation of detrimental gaseous molecules (especially CO 2)
from various mixtures using different types of chemical absorbents has been recently of …

Nanofluids, a new cost-effective chemical additive for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
applications, have attracted increasing attention in the development of tight oil reservoirs …

In recent decades, nanotechnology has been more and more used in EOR. In particular, the
nanoparticle-surfactant nanofluid, which is composed of nanoparticles and surfactants, can …