An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery: recent advances and prospects

AO Gbadamosi, R Junin, MA Manan, A Agi… - International Nano …, 2019 - Springer
Despite the progress made on renewable energy, oil and gas remains the world's primary
energy source. Meanwhile, large amounts of oil deposits remain unrecovered after …

A review of gemini surfactants: potential application in enhanced oil recovery

MS Kamal - Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, 2016 - Springer
Gemini surfactants are a group of novel surfactants with more than one hydrophilic head
group and hydrophobic tail group linked by a spacer at or near the head groups. Unique …

Comprehensive review on the role of surfactants in the chemical enhanced oil recovery process

S Chowdhury, S Shrivastava, A Kakati… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
With a constant upsurge in energy demand, production from depleted and harsh reservoirs
through enhanced oil recovery techniques (EOR) has significantly increased. Among many …

Recent advances and prospects in polymeric nanofluids application for enhanced oil recovery

AO Gbadamosi, R Junin, MA Manan, N Yekeen… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) processes are used to recover bypassed and
residual oil trapped in the reservoir after primary and secondary recovery methods …

A review on wettability alteration in carbonate rocks: Wettability modifiers

X Deng, MS Kamal, S Patil, SMS Hussain… - Energy & Fuels, 2019 - ACS Publications
More than half of the global oil reserves are in carbonate reservoirs. Carbonate rocks,
however, in most cases tend to be mixed-wet or oil-wet. Wettability alteration of carbonate …

Structural aspects, mechanisms and emerging prospects of Gemini surfactant-based alternative Enhanced Oil Recovery technology: A review

N Pal, H Hoteit, A Mandal - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2021 - Elsevier
The design and development of chemical routes with fascinating physicochemical attributes
comprise a major field of research in enhanced oil recovery (EOR).'Dimerization'depicts a …

Emerging applications of nanomaterials in chemical enhanced oil recovery: Progress and perspective

N Lashari, T Ganat - Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In enhanced oil recovery, different chemical methods utilization improves hydrocarbon
recovery due to their fascinating abilities to alter some critical parameters in porous media …

[HTML][HTML] A review of chemical-assisted minimum miscibility pressure reduction in CO2 injection for enhanced oil recovery

M Almobarak, Z Wu, D Zhou, K Fan, Y Liu, Q Xie - Petroleum, 2021 - Elsevier
Miscible CO 2 injection appears to be an important enhanced oil recovery technique for
improving sweep efficiency and eliminating CO 2-oil interfacial tension resulting in up to …

Novel Gemini cationic surfactants as anti-corrosion for X-65 steel dissolution in oilfield produced water under sweet conditions: Combined experimental and …

MA Migahed, MM El-Rabiei, H Nady, EG Zaki - Journal of Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Two new sequences of Gemini di-quaternary ammonium salts were synthesized
characterized by FTIR and 1 HNMR spectroscopic techniques and evaluated as corrosion …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulation for quantitative characterization of wettability transition on silica surface

Z Wang, C Yu, J Zhao, P Guo, H Liu - Journal of Materials Research and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surfactant controlling the wettability of reservoir rocks is one of the important ways to
enhance oil recovery in low-permeability tight reservoirs. A large number of scholars have …