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 …

The injected fluids in secondary processes supplement the natural energy present in the
reservoir to displace oil. The recovery efficiency mainly depends on the mechanism of …

Research on nanotechnology application in the oil and gas industry has been growing
rapidly in the past decade, as evidenced by the number of scientific articles published in the …

Changing oil-wet surfaces toward higher water wettability is of key importance in subsurface
engineering applications. This includes petroleum recovery from fractured limestone …

Stability of nanofluids along with their promising properties has led to wide applications of
nanoparticles (NPs) in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects. Nanofluids that are colloidal …

Injecting surfactant by means of chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) has acquired
predominant attention in improving oil recovery by changing either fluid/rock and/or …

Nanofluids have been recently proposed as new chemical agents for enhanced oil recovery
from oil reservoirs. Various nanofluids have been studied in that regard and reported in the …

Wettability alteration can occur at different stages during the producing life of a reservoir. Oil
recovery from oil-wet reservoirs can significantly be increased by altering its wettability from …

The current and prospective worldwide energy demands have led either to start exploiting
the more difficult and costly unconventional oil reserves, or to maximize the exploitation of …

Nanoparticles (NPs) are known as important nanomaterials for a broad range of commercial
and research applications owing to their physical characteristics and properties. Currently …