A comprehensive review of beneficial applications of viscoelastic surfactants in wellbore hydraulic fracturing fluids

S Davoodi, M Al-Shargabi, DA Wood… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydraulic fracturing integrates key technologies assisting in the establishment, increase,
and stabilization of gas and oil production. In particular, the performance of the working …

Review of the environmental and health risks of hydraulic fracturing fluids

S Makki, E Maalouf, A Yehya - Heliyon, 2025 - cell.com
The composition of hydraulic fracturing (HF) fluid poses risks to human health and the
environment by impacting drinking water sources. Fracturing fluid recovery rate is highly …

A common well pad does not imply common toxicity: Assessing the acute and chronic toxicity of flowback and produced waters from four Montney Formation wells on …

A Boyd, SP Myers, I Luu, K Snihur, DS Alessi… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large stores of previously inaccessible hydrocarbons have become available due to the
development of hydraulic fracturing technologies. During the hydraulic fracturing process, a …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of surfactants used in oil and gas extraction on produced water treatment by membrane distillation

R Pawar, RD Vidic - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Produced water from unconventional oil and gas reservoirs often contains non-ionic
surfactants that are added to the hydraulic fracturing fluid to facilitate water release and …

页岩气藏中硫化氢成因研究进展

李乐, 胡远清, 彭小桂, 王伟, 余浩宇, 崔亚圣 - 石油学报, 2024 - epjournal.csee.org.cn
传统观点认为页岩气藏中不含硫化氢或含有微量的硫化氢, 然而在近10 年的勘探开发实践中,
已有9 个页岩气藏发现了低—特高含量硫化氢, 其中, 高—特高含量的硫化氢多出现于钙质页岩 …

Surfactants are ineffective for reducing imbibition of water-based fracturing fluids in deep gas reservoirs

TK Tokunaga, OA Omosebi, J Wan - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Minimizing loss of injected hydraulic fracturing fluids into shale along fracture-matrix
boundaries is desired because imbibed water restricts gas production and wastes valuable …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental Study and Analysis of Chemical Modification of Coal Surfaces by Viscoelastic Surfactant Fracturing Fluids

M Yang, S Gong, Y Cheng - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
The continuous deepening of coal-seam extraction has sharply increased both gas pressure
and content. The use of viscoelastic surfactant fracturing fluids (VESFFs) has been …

Modification of a hybrid fluoro-surfactant containing double fluorocarbon chains on the carbonate and shale rocks for the wettability reduction of water and oil

E Pu, X Wang, C Zhong, X He, X Zhu - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
An original hybrid fluoro-surfactant DHE with double fluorocarbon chains was synthesized.
This surfactant aimed to reduce significantly the wettability of water and oil on the carbonate …

Research progress of hydrogen sulfide genesis in shale gas reservoirs

L Li, Y Hu, X Peng, W Wang, H Yu, Y Cui - Acta Petrolei Sinica, 2024 - syxb-cps.com.cn
It is traditionally considered that shale gas reservoirs do not contain or contain little
hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S). However, low to extra-high content of H 2 S has been detected in 9 …

Nonionic and anionic surfactants as flowback aids in hydraulic fracturing methods of crude oil production

J Clements - Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Surfactants find utility in hydraulic fracturing operations for their ability to modify rock
wettability and increase the flowback of fracturing fluid following proppant delivery. The …