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 …

[HTML][HTML] Most common surfactants employed in chemical enhanced oil recovery

C Negin, S Ali, Q Xie - Petroleum, 2017 - Elsevier
Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and particularly surfactant injection has recently
received a great deal of attention. The suggested recovery mechanisms after injecting …

[HTML][HTML] The use of surfactants in enhanced oil recovery: A review of recent advances

O Massarweh, AS Abushaikha - Energy Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Currently, there is a widespread interest in the different methods of chemical enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) as a result of the continuous decline in the conventional oil reserves and the …

Comprehensive review on surfactant adsorption on mineral surfaces in chemical enhanced oil recovery

Z Liu, G Zhao, M Brewer, Q Lv, EJR Sudhölter - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for efficient extraction of residual oil, enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) offers prospects for producing more reservoirs' original oil in place. As one of the most …

Comprehensive review on the role of surfactants in the chemical enhanced oil recovery process

S Chowdhury, S Shrivastava, A Kakati… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
With a constant upsurge in energy demand, production from depleted and harsh reservoirs
through enhanced oil recovery techniques (EOR) has significantly increased. Among many …

The effect of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption for chemical enhanced oil recovery: a review

AF Belhaj, KA Elraies, SM Mahmood, NN Zulkifli… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Springer
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes have a great potential to maximize oil recovery
factor of the existing reservoirs, where a significant volume of the unrecovered oil after …

Improved oil recovery by reducing surfactant adsorption with polyelectrolyte in high saline brine

M Budhathoki, SHR Barnee, BJ Shiau… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2016 - Elsevier
Surfactant adsorption on reservoir rock is one of the biggest challenges of chemical
enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) techniques. This problem can become severe in high saline …

Oil recovery performance by surfactant flooding: a perspective on multiscale evaluation methods

K Al-Azani, S Abu-Khamsin, R Al-Abdrabalnabi… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chemical-enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) is a class of techniques commonly used to extract
hydrocarbon fluids from reservoir rocks beyond conventional waterflooding. Surfactants are …

Review on surfactant flooding: phase behavior, retention, IFT, and field applications

MS Kamal, IA Hussein, AS Sultan - Energy & fuels, 2017 - ACS Publications
Surfactant flooding is an important technique used in enhanced oil recovery to reduce the
amount of oil in pore space of matrix rock. Surfactants are injected to mobilize residual oil by …

Surfactant selection for enhanced oil recovery based on surfactant molecular structure in unconventional liquid reservoirs

W Chen, DS Schechter - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental observations and field applications have revealed that surfactants have
significant potential to enhance oil recovery in unconventional liquid reservoirs (ULR). This …