On the reduction of the residual oil saturation through the injection of polymer and nanoparticle solutions

W Song, DG Hatzignatiou - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymer flooding has been traditionally applied to achieve favorable mobility ratios
compared to water flooding, and thus increase formation sweep efficiency in oil …

Visualization study of polymer enhanced foam (PEF) flooding for recovery of waterflood residual oil: Effect of cross flow

F Rezaeiakmal, R Parsaei - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Foam injection is an emerging EOR technology that increases oil recovery by reducing gas
mobility, especially in heterogeneous reservoirs with permeability variations. Foam can …

Simulation interpretation of capillary pressure and relative permeability from laboratory waterflooding experiments in preferentially oil-wet porous media

PØ Andersen, K Walrond, CKL Nainggolan… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2020 - onepetro.org
In preferentially oil‐wet porous media, laboratory waterflooding experiments are prone to
capillary end effects. The wetting phase (oil) will tend to accumulate at the outlet where the …

Oil recovery mechanisms during sequential injection of chelating agent solutions into carbonate rocks

AM Hassan, HS Al-Hashim - Journal of Energy …, 2020 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Chelating agent solutions have been proposed as effective fluids for enhancing oil
production. Different recovery mechanisms are reported for increasing the oil recovery …

Experimental visualization and analysis of multiphase immiscible flow in fractured micromodels using micro-particle image velocimetry

N Haque, A Singh, UK Saha - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The study of fluid flow through fractured porous media has drawn immense interest in the
fields of soil hydrology, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and others. In this work, a low-cost …

Analytical solution for chemical fluid injection into linear heterogeneous porous media based on the method of characteristics

Y Qiao, DG Hatzignatiou - Chemical Engineering Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Injection of Newtonian fluids in porous media to displace linearly another Newtonian fluid is
described by the Buckley-Leverett (BL) fractional flow theory derived for incompressible …

Behavior study of a thermo‐responsive hydrophobically associative water‐soluble terpolymer in laboratory test with heavy crude oil

JG Torres‐Martínez, M Pérez‐Alvarez… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a thermo‐responsive hydrophobically associative water‐soluble terpolymer was
prepared and evaluated as polymer flooding in laboratory tests versus a heavy crude oil …

A New Method to Develop Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Porous Micromodels Applicable to Enhanced Oil Recovery and Flow Visualization Experiments

N Haque, A Singh, UK Saha - Journal of Energy …, 2023 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, a new method to fabricate micromodels having homogeneous and
heterogeneous porous structures is reported to gain fundamental insight into the flow …

Temperature Dependence of the Shear-Thinning Behavior o Partially Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide Solution for Enhanced Oil Recovery

PS Kang, JS Lim, C Huh - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The viscosity of injection fluid is a critical parameter that should be considered for the design
and evaluation of polymer flood, which is an effective and popular technique for enhanced …

Performance evaluation of STARPAM polymer and application in high temperature and salinity reservoir

C Zhang, P Wang, G Song - International Journal of Analytical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Based on the properties of high temperature and salinity reservoir, the water‐soluble
polymer with good heat resistance and salt tolerance can be obtained through …