Nanoparticles (NPs) are currently gaining wide acceptance in the field of petroleum
engineering. They are applied in different areas of petroleum exploration and production …

Injection of chemicals and thermal fluids in discovered petroleum reservoirs are becoming
more commonplace to achieve improved recovery and sustainability of oil/gas resources. A …

The slickwater treatment is widely used in the unconventional fracturing. The proppant
addition schedule is an important aspect of slickwater treatment. However, the effect of …

Effective coating of nanoparticles on the proppant pack has been regarded as a promising
technique for enhancing proppant functions to achieve multiple objectives. In this work, a …

Low-salinity water flooding has become a significant way to develop carbonate reservoirs in
recent years. Clarifying the micro-flow mechanism of low-salinity water flooding (LSWF) on …

Enhanced oil recovery by low-salinity waterflooding (LSW) has been shown to result from
the combined effect of various physical mechanisms. In this study, laboratory experiments …

This paper provides a comprehensive study to evaluate and optimize the effectiveness of
nanofluids to both prevent fines migration and enhance oil recovery using different utilization …

Many carbonate oil fields are known to be oil-wet, which makes production more difficult.
Enhanced oil recovery methods have been developed in the past to reduce interfacial …

Fines migration is considered one of the mechanisms of permeability alteration associated
with water injection in aquifers and oil reservoirs. However, there has been limited direct …

Chemical enhanced oil recovery (c-EOR) is a conventional and promising strategy to
recover oil from reservoir techniques such as low salinity water flooding (LSWF), surfactant …