A New Strategy to Minimize the Surfactant Adsorption on Saudi Carbonate

S Kalam, SA Abu-Khamsin, MS Kamal, S Patil… - Abu Dhabi …, 2022 - onepetro.org
Surfactants play a vital role in chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) to improve oil
production by lowering the oil-water interfacial tension and/or altering the rock wettability …

Reducing adsorption of a gemini surfactant on carbonate rocks using low salinity water

S Kalam, SA Abu-Khamsin, AO Gbadamosi… - SPE Gas & Oil …, 2023 - onepetro.org
Surfactants are widely employed in chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) technique. The
economics of a cEOR project is directly impacted by the amount of surfactant loss caused by …

Soft Computing Approach for the Prediction of Surfactant Adsorption

S Kalam, SA Abu-Khamsin, MS Kamal, S Patil… - Abu Dhabi …, 2022 - onepetro.org
Surfactants are commonly used in chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR). The quantity of
surfactant loss due to adsorption on a rock directly influences a cEOR project economics …

Adsorption analysis of natural anionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery: The role of mineralogy, salinity, alkalinity and nanoparticles

N Saxena, A Kumar, A Mandal - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Anionic surfactants are widely used as an effective chemical for enhanced oil recovery
because of their unique characteristics of reducing interfacial tension (IFT) between the …

[HTML][HTML] Study of the Adsorption of Anionic Surfactants on Carbonate Rocks: Characterizations, Experimental Design, and Parameter Implementation

VFS Borges, MKS Monteiro, EDS Filho, DC Silva… - Coatings, 2024 - mdpi.com
Controlling or reducing the adsorption of surfactants on reservoir rock surfaces has been a
challenging task in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods, as it directly affects the cost …

Experimental studies of ionic surfactant adsorption onto carbonate rocks

Z Salari, MA Ahmadi - Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
One of the main factors in chemical-based enhanced oil recovery, especially surfactant
flooding, is a surfactant adsorption loss onto the reservoir rock. The main aim of this article is …

Role of surfactant structures on surfactant-rock adsorption in various rock types

D Wilson, L Poindexter, T Nguyen - SPE International Conference on …, 2019 - onepetro.org
Adsorption of surfactant onto rock surfaces is dependent upon a number of factors, including
characteristics of both the adsorbent and surfactant molecules. Considering that surfactant …

Static and dynamic adsorption of a gemini surfactant on a carbonate rock in the presence of low salinity water

S Kalam, SA Abu-Khamsin, AO Gbadamosi, S Patil… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
In chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) techniques, surfactants are extensively used for
enhancing oil recovery by reducing interfacial tension and/or modifying wettability. However …

Adsorption of a new nonionic surfactant on carbonate minerals in enhanced oil recovery: experimental and modeling study

A Barati, A Najafi, A Daryasafar, P Nadali… - … Research and Design, 2016 - Elsevier
Surfactants have ability to mobilize the residual oil trapped in porous medium and resulting
higher oil recovery by altering interfacial tension between residual oil and water. However …

A review on surfactant retention on rocks: mechanisms, measurements, and influencing factors

S Kalam, SA Abu-Khamsin, MS Kamal, S Patil - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Surfactants play a vital role in chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR). The amount of
surfactant loss caused by retention during flooding through reservoir rock is still a challenge …