Literature Review of Hybrid CO2 Low Salinity Water-Alternating-Gas Injection and Investigation on Hysteresis Effect

S Ma, LA James - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Low salinity water injection (LSWI) is considered to be more cost-effective and has less
environmental impacts over conventional chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) methods …

A critical review of enhanced oil recovery by imbibition: Theory and practice

W Tian, K Wu, Y Gao, Z Chen, Y Gao, J Li - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Imbibition is very common, occurring in life, material, chemistry, and energy. It plays an
important role in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The development of many reservoirs is …

A critical review on low salinity waterflooding for enhanced oil recovery: Experimental studies, simulations, and field applications

GC Mwakipunda, R Jia, MM Mgimba, MR Ngata… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the challenges of discovering new energy sources, enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
techniques remain a potential area of research interest to produce residual oil in matured …

Modeling investigation of low salinity water injection in sandstones and carbonates: Effect of Na+ and SO42−

C Esene, D Onalo, S Zendehboudi, L James, A Aborig… - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Low salinity water injection (LSWI) has gained great attention as a promising enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) method with numerous advantages (eg, economic and environmental …

Review on underlying mechanisms of low salinity waterflooding: comparisons between sandstone and carbonate

C Lyu, L Zhong, Z Ning, M Chen, DR Cole - Energy & Fuels, 2022 - ACS Publications
Low salinity effects (LSE) improved recovery could be obtained by reducing salinity and/or
modifying the specific ions of injected brines. Low salinity waterflooding (LSW) is described …

Modeling and optimization of alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding and hybrid enhanced oil recovery processes

C Dang, L Nghiem, N Nguyen, C Yang, Z Chen… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents recent advances in the subject of modeling and optimization of ASP
(Alkaline, Surfactant and Polymer) flooding. We used an approach that models the behavior …

Thermodynamic analysis of chalk–brine–oil interactions

AA Eftekhari, K Thomsen, EH Stenby, HM Nick - Energy & Fuels, 2017 - ACS Publications
The surface complexation models (SCMs) are used successfully for describing the
thermodynamic equilibrium between the pure calcite surface (carbonate and calcium sites) …

Effects of fines migration on residual oil during low-salinity waterflooding

A Al-Sarihi, A Zeinijahromi, L Genolet, A Behr… - Energy & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A novel mechanism of residual oil reduction during low-salinity water flooding by induced
fines migration and consequent permeability damage is discovered. Dry corefloods (without …

Effects of low-salinity water on the interface characteristics and imbibition process

D Zhu, B Li, H Li, B Li, Y Cao, Z Li - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Spontaneous imbibition is an important recovery method of low permeability and tight
reservoirs. However, the mechanism and influencing factors of imbibition on the addition of …

Drivers of low salinity effect in sandstone reservoirs

E Pooryousefy, Q Xie, Y Chen, A Sari… - Journal of Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wettability of oil/brine/rock system is a fundamental petro-physical parameter, governing the
subsurface multiphase flow behaviour, thus affecting hydrocarbon recovery. However …