Polymer injection is a technique that has been applied worldwide to improve oil reservoir
volumetric sweep efficiency and increase the recovery factor. Different applications using …

Polymer flooding for enhanced oil recovery is increasingly in demand in countries such as
Colombia, where ECOPETROL has taken major steps in applying this technique to revitalize …

This study has a primary objective the evaluation of the effect of surface acidity of silica
nanoparticles for mitigation of time-dependent thermal degradation of polymer solutions of …

Nanomaterials have been used in the oil and gas industry to improve thermal stability,
rheology properties, and reactivity through fluid dispersion into the formation. Nanomaterials …

Given recent moves toward cleaner energy production, the application of environmentally
friendly methods for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is considered to be an important research …

Polymer flooding is a commercial Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) process that belongs to the
chemical EOR methods. Its principal objective is to improve reservoir sweep efficiency in …

The main objective of this study is the synthesis, use, and reuse of magnetic copper ferrite
nanospheres (CFNS) for extra-heavy oil viscosity reduction. The CFNS were synthesized …

Waterflooding is one of the oil recovery processes best known and applied worldwide.
However, this method has limited efficiency to displace oil. That is why the implementations …

Due to the large amount of heavy oil reserves, thermal recovery projects have been
developed in Colombia in the last decade. Several fields under Cyclic Steam Stimulation …

CASTRO-GARCIA, Rubén-Hernán; MAYA-TORO, Gustavo-Adolfo; SANDOVAL-MUNOZ,
Jorge-Eduardo and COHEN-PATERNINA, Lia-Margarita. COLLOIDAL DISPERSION GELS …