Waterflooding has been applied for many years as secondary recovery method with no or
little regard to the effect of the injected water salinity on oil recovery. However, in the last …

The low recovery of hydraulic fracturing fluid in unconventional shale reservoirs has been in
the centre of attention from both technical and environmental perspectives in the last …

CO2 and CH4 wettabilities of organic-rich shale are important physicochemical parameters
that significantly influence CO2 sequestration and CH4 production. However, there is a …

One of the key open questions in the area of low or controlled salinity water flooding (LSWF
or CSWF) is how the observed oil recovery at macro-scale (eg Darcy or core-scale) can the …

Hypothesis The wetting behaviour is a key property of a porous medium that controls
hydraulic conductivity in multiphase flow. While many porous materials, such as …

Coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs have the characteristics of low porosity, low
permeability, strong heterogeneity and high content of adsorbed gas. A large number of …

Wettability is a critical interface property for two-phase flow and reactive transport process in
porous media. Wettability alteration is considered as the dominated mechanism for …

The rock wettabilities and water contact angles describing interactions between CO 2, CH 4,
brine and shale formations are of great significance to CO 2 sequestration and enhanced …

The primary aim of this study was to investigate the “dilution effect”, where dilution of the
ionic concentration of the fluid injected into oil wells has been found to enhance oil recovery …

Brine fluids have recently been of high interest to enhanced oil recovery process in both
academia and industry. Both diluted formation brines and specifically formulated brines …