Wettability modification plays a pivotal role in augmenting oil recovery from hydrocarbon
reservoirs, rendering it a primary focal point during Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) …

Previous studies have reported contradictory behavior on the influence of salinity on
enhanced oil recovery (EOR) chemicals like surfactants, polymers, and nanoparticles …

The utilization of smart water in EOR (enhanced oil recovery) operations has drawn
increased attention in recent years. Nevertheless, the variety and complexity of mechanisms …

Dynamic behavior of fluid-fluid interactions can potentially affect the performance of any
enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process including low salinity water flooding. In this work …

Hypothesis. A large number of papers discuss merits and mechanisms of low salinity
waterflooding. For each mechanism proposed, there are counter examples to invalidate the …

Spontaneous imbibition of water from fracture into the matrix is considered as one of the
most important recovery mechanisms in the fractured porous media. However, water cannot …

Detailed investigation of the time-scale and the combined effect of fluid-rock and fluid–fluid
phenomena in low-salinity enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is essential to gain fundamental …

Microfluidics is an appealing method to study processes at rock pore scale such as oil
recovery because of the similar size range. It also offers several advantages over the …

Low salinity water injection (LSWI) is a current and cost-effective method to enhance oil
recovery by changing the salinity and composition of the injected water. However, the …

After long-term water injection, many developed oilfields in the Ordos Basin, China, have
entered a period of the high water-cut stage. In waterflooded layers, formation water is a …