Wettability, a fundamental property of porous surface, occupies a pivotal position in the fields
of enhanced oil recovery, organic contaminant adsorption and oil/water separation. In this …

Surfactant-based oil recovery processes are employed to lower the interfacial tension in
immiscible displacement processes, change the wettability of rock to a more water-wet …

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 …

Abstract In Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (CEOR), various chemicals such as polymer,
surfactant, alkaline, and nanoparticles are injected solely or in combination to mobilize the …

Most oil fields today are mature, and the majority of the reservoirs in the Middle East are
carbonate rocks characterized by high temperature high salinity (HTHS), heterogeneous …

Improved oil recovery (IOR) includes enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and other technologies
(ie fracturing, water injection optimization, etc.), have become important methods to increase …

Chemical-enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) is a class of techniques commonly used to extract
hydrocarbon fluids from reservoir rocks beyond conventional waterflooding. Surfactants are …

Minerals surface properties have played a substantial to predict the rock mineralogy and
chemical materials interactions, especially in chemical flooding (eg, polymers, surfactant). In …

The depletion of conventional resources and steady increase in the global oil demands has
led to the shift of attention to the unconventional resources which are difficult to extract due …

The imbibition of water with surfactants, including spontaneous imbibition and forced
imbibition, is of great significance for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in tight sandstone …