An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery: recent advances and prospects

AO Gbadamosi, R Junin, MA Manan, A Agi… - International Nano …, 2019 - Springer
Despite the progress made on renewable energy, oil and gas remains the world's primary
energy source. Meanwhile, large amounts of oil deposits remain unrecovered after …

[HTML][HTML] A review of recent developments in CO2 mobility control in enhanced oil recovery

O Massarweh, AS Abushaikha - Petroleum, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery (CO 2-EOR) has gained widespread attention in light
of the declining conventional oil reserves. Moreover, CO 2-EOR contributes to the reduction …

A comprehensive review of experimental studies of nanoparticles-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery

N Yekeen, MA Manan, AK Idris… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles-stabilized foam has recently attracted increasing attention for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) applications, largely due to the potentially high stability of these foams in the …

Application of nanotechnology by means of nanoparticles and nanodispersions in oil recovery-A comprehensive review

A Bera, H Belhaj - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The present review provides recent trend of nanotechnology in the upstream oil sector
research. The experimental developments in laboratory for possible field applications have …

Enhanced oil recovery using nanoparticles

NA Ogolo, OA Olafuyi, MO Onyekonwu - SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia …, 2012 - onepetro.org
Nanoparticles have been speculated as good in-situ agents for solving reservoir
engineering problems. Some selected types of nanoparticles that are likely to be used …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of nanotechnology in the oil and gas industry: Emphasis on the application of silica nanoparticles

MF Fakoya, SN Shah - Petroleum, 2017 - Elsevier
The application of nanotechnology in the oil and gas industry is on the rise as evidenced by
the number of researches undertaken in the past few years. The quest to develop more …

Nanoparticles as foam stabilizer: Mechanism, control parameters and application in foam flooding for enhanced oil recovery

Y Zhang, Q Liu, H Ye, LL Yang, D Luo… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, numbers of studies have been conducted by using nanoparticles as novel foam
stabilizer to enhance oil recovery (EOR). However, previous studies have not classified the …

Mechanism governing nanoparticle flow behaviour in porous media: insight for enhanced oil recovery applications

A Agi, R Junin, A Gbadamosi - International Nano Letters, 2018 - Springer
Nanotechnology has found its way to petroleum engineering, it is well-accepted path in the
oil and gas industry to recover more oil trapped in the reservoir. But the addition of …

Experimental investigations to evaluate surfactant role on absorption capacity of nanofluid for CO2 utilization in sustainable crude mobilization

KR Chaturvedi, R Narukulla, M Amani, T Sharma - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) utilization for oilfield applications is affected by viscous fingering
which leads to premature breakthrough without showing any appreciable impact on oil …

[HTML][HTML] Review of foam stability in porous media: The effect of coarsening

W Yu, MY Kanj - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Foam stability in porous media is crucial to industrial applications such as enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) and CO 2 geological sequestration. Though many studies of foam stability in …