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 …

Conventional and electrical EOR review: the development trend of ultrasonic application in EOR

SH Shafiai, A Gohari - Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production …, 2020 - Springer
A small portion of oil can be extracted during primary and secondary stages of oil
production, and significant quantities of oil remain in reservoirs. Enhanced oil recovery …

Impact of carbonate mineral heterogeneity on wettability alteration potential of surfactants

A AlZaabi, M Arif, M Ali, A Adila, Y Abbas, RS Kumar… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Surfactants have been widely used for enhanced oil recovery. However, the wettability
alteration potential of surfactants as a function of carbonate rock mineralogy remains broadly …

Modeling interfacial tension of surfactant–hydrocarbon systems using robust tree-based machine learning algorithms

A Rashidi-Khaniabadi, E Rashidi-Khaniabadi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Interfacial tension (IFT) between surfactants and hydrocarbon is one of the important
parameters in petroleum engineering to have a successful enhanced oil recovery (EOR) …

Oil recovery performance by surfactant flooding: a perspective on multiscale evaluation methods

K Al-Azani, S Abu-Khamsin, R Al-Abdrabalnabi… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chemical-enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) is a class of techniques commonly used to extract
hydrocarbon fluids from reservoir rocks beyond conventional waterflooding. Surfactants are …

Effects of salt and surfactant on interfacial characteristics of water/oil systems: molecular dynamic simulations and dissipative particle dynamics

F Goodarzi, S Zendehboudi - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Multiphase systems and their behaviors/characteristics appear to be crucial in a variety of
industries such as the oil and gas sector, pharmaceutical industry, and food industry. In this …

Robust optimization of CO2 sequestration through a water alternating gas process under geological uncertainties in Cuu Long Basin, Vietnam

HV Thanh, Y Sugai, R Nguele, K Sasaki - Journal of Natural Gas Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents a robust optimization workflow to determine the optimal water alternating
gas (WAG) process for CO 2 sequestration in a heterogeneous fluvial sandstone reservoir …

The design of high-viscosity oil reservoir model based on the inverse problem solution

MG Persova, YG Soloveichik, DV Vagin, AM Grif… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose an approach to the solution of the automatic history-matching problem for
constructing models of high-viscosity oil reservoirs. It is based on a special parameterization …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the surfactant-polymer flooding performance in chemical enhanced oil recovery: Cascade neural network and gradient boosting decision tree

A Larestani, SP Mousavi, F Hadavimoghaddam… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surfactant-polymer flooding is one of the most important enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
techniques, which refers to the injection of surfactant slugs and polymer drives. Two crucial …

Review on microemulsions for conformance improvement technology: Fundamentals, design considerations, and perspectives

N Pal, Y Alzahid, AM AlSofi, M Ali, H Hoteit - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
The area of conformance improvement technology (CIT) encompasses the application of a
myriad range of conventional fluids, including polymers, gels, foams, polymer-enhanced …