After successful implementation for more than 6 decades by the oil and gas industry, hydraulic fracturing remains the pioneer well stimulation method to date. Polymers are one …
KY Hue, JH Lew, MM Myo Thant, OK Matar… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
In poorly consolidated carbonate rock reservoirs, solids production risk, which can lead to increased environmental waste, can be mitigated by injecting formation-strengthening …
D Yerniyazov, M Yesmukhambet, R Kenes, A Bukayev… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polymer flooding is one of the most widely used and effective enhanced oil recovery techniques. It can improve the macroscopic sweep efficiency of a reservoir by controlling the …
Understanding the dynamic behavior of polymeric fluids in porous media is essential for vast geoscience applications, particularly enhanced oil recovery and polymer-enhanced soil …
S Al-Hajri, SM Mahmood, S Akbari, H Abdulelah… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Part of the injected polymer during polymer flooding is lost in porous media by adsorption, mechanical entrapment, and hydrodynamic retention. Therefore, having a clear …
Polymers play a major role in developing rheology of fracturing fluids for multistage hydraulic fracturing horizontal wells in unconventional reservoirs. Reducing the amount of …
Polymers have been used effectively in the Oil & Gas Industry for a variety of field applications, such as enhanced oil recovery (EOR), well conformance, mobility control, and …
Polymer flooding is a prominent chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) method that involves the injection of polymer solution into the oil reservoirs to improve the sweep …
A Sugar, MF Serag, VA Torrealba, U Buttner… - SPE Europec featured …, 2020 - onepetro.org
Understanding polymer transport through porous media is key to successful field implementations, including well conformance control and EOR processes. Polymer retention …