Advancing foam EOR: A comprehensive Examination of key parameters and mechanisms from surfactants to nanoparticles

NR Dadi, NK Maurya, P Gupta - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024 - Elsevier
Different enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods have been implemented in oil fields over the
past decades. Gas flooding is widely used, but its effectiveness is hindered by mobility …

Foam-assisted chemical flooding for enhanced oil recovery: effects of slug salinity and drive foam strength

MTG Janssen, AS Mutawa, RM Pilus, PLJ Zitha - Energy & Fuels, 2019 - ACS Publications
The novel enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique combining the reduction of oil/water (o/w)
interfacial tensions (IFT) to ultralow values and generation of a foam drive for mobility control …

A comparative study of gas flooding and foam-assisted chemical flooding in bentheimer sandstones

MTG Janssen, RM Pilus, PLJ Zitha - Transport in Porous Media, 2020 - Springer
A laboratory study of principal immiscible gas flooding schemes is reported. Very well-
controlled experiments on continuous gas injection, water-alternating-gas (WAG) and …

Oil recovery by alkaline/surfactant/foam flooding: effect of drive-foam quality on oil-bank propagation

MT Janssen, PL Zitha, RM Pilus - SPE Journal, 2019 - onepetro.org
Summary Alkaline/surfactant/foam (ASF) flooding is a novel enhanced–oil–recovery (EOR)
process that increases oil recovery over waterflooding by combining foaming with a …

Integration between experimental investigation and numerical simulation of alkaline surfactant foam flooding in carbonate reservoirs

JVG Silva, BMO Silveira, JV Ferrari… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2024 - Springer
In Brazil, pre-salt carbonate reservoirs are largely responsible for the current increase in oil
production. However, due to its peculiar characteristics, increasing oil recovery by water …

Prediction of surface tension of solution in the presence of hydrophilic silica nanoparticle and anionic surfactant by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometric methods

M Mohammadi, MK Khorrami, H Vatanparast… - … Acta Part A: Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the current research, an analytical method was proposed for the quantitative
determination of surface tension of anionic surfactant solutions in the presence of …

Effect of Newtonian and non-Newtonian viscosifying agents on stability of foams in enhanced oil recovery. Part I: under bulk condition

SM Hosseini-Nasab, M Taal, PLJ Zitha… - Iranian Polymer Journal, 2019 - Springer
Foams show poor stability in enhanced oil recovery applications and stimulation processes
in oil-well operations of oil fields. This paper presents a laboratory study to investigate the …

[PDF][PDF] Numerical Simulation of Gas Flooding, Water-Alternating-Gas Injection, and Foam-Assisted Chemical Flooding

FAT Méndez - repository.tudelft.nl
ABSTRACT Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR) methods can increase the oil
recovery of a reservoir to more than 60% of the volumes originally in-situ. Typical oil …

Evaluation of foam-assisted surfactant flooding at reservoir conditions

M Janssen, A Mutawa, R Pilus, P Zitha - SPE Europec featured at …, 2019 - onepetro.org
Abstract Foam-Assisted Surfactant Flooding (FASF) is a novel enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
method combining the reduction of oil-water (o/w) interfacial tension (IFT) to ultra-low values …