Review of low salinity waterflooding in carbonate rocks: mechanisms, investigation techniques, and future directions

JT Tetteh, PV Brady, RB Ghahfarokhi - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review analyses the fundamental thermodynamic theory of the crude oil-brine-rock
(COBR) interface and the underlying rock-brine and oil-brine interactions. The available …

[HTML][HTML] Probing the interfacial forces and surface interaction mechanisms in petroleum production processes

D Yang, X Peng, Q Peng, T Wang, C Qiao, Z Zhao… - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the advances that have been made in renewable energy over the past decade,
crude oil or petroleum remains one of the most important energy resources to the world …

Modeling wettability change in sandstones and carbonates using a surface-complexation-based method

AKN Korrani, GR Jerauld - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
After testing proposed models in the literature on sandstones and carbonates, we propose a
mechanistic surface-complexation-based model that quantitatively describes observations …

Artificial neural network, support vector machine, decision tree, random forest, and committee machine intelligent system help to improve performance prediction of …

A Shafiei, A Tatar, M Rayhani, M Kairat… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
A large body of experimental research supports the effectiveness of Low Salinity Water
Injection (LSWI) for enhanced oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs in laboratory scale …

Fines migration and permeability decline during reservoir depletion coupled with clay swelling due to low-salinity water injection: An analytical study

S Tangparitkul, A Saul, C Leelasukseree… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fines migration is crucial for reservoir permeability, involving both fine particle detachment
and re-deposition along the flow channels. Fines migration behavior can either promote or …

Synergy of surface modified nanoparticles and surfactant in wettability alteration of calcite at high salinity and temperature

W Tang, P Wu, C Da, S Alzobaidi, J Harris, B Hallaman… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The surface of silica nanoparticles (NPs) was modified by chemical grafting of ligands to:(1)
achieve colloidal stability in concentrated brine at salinities up to 25.7% total dissolved …

Wettability Alteration and Enhanced Oil Recovery Induced by Proximal Adsorption of , , , , and Ions on Calcite

J Liu, OB Wani, SM Alhassan, ST Pantelides - Physical Review Applied, 2018 - APS
The underlying wettability alteration mechanism responsible for enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) in carbonate reservoirs is a long-standing issue for which no consensus has yet been …

Dynamics of electrostatic interaction and electrodiffusion in a charged thin film with nanoscale physicochemical heterogeneity: Implications for low-salinity …

A Pourakaberian, H Mahani, V Niasar - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
The slow kinetics of wettability alteration toward a more water-wetting state by low-salinity
waterflooding (LSWF) in oil-brine-rock (OBR) systems is conjectured to be pertinent to the …

Surface Forces Apparatus measurements of interactions between rough and reactive calcite surfaces

J Dziadkowiec, S Javadi, JE Bratvold, O Nilsen… - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
nm-Range forces acting between calcite surfaces in water affect macroscopic properties of
carbonate rocks and calcite-based granular materials and are significantly influenced by …

Formation and stability of heterogeneous organo–ionic surface layers on geological carbonates

A Rao, N Schilderink, D Le-Anh, R Zeng… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many geological processes from oil recovery to underground CO2 storage are affected by
natural molecules adsorbed on rock surfaces. Yet, geochemical models tend to overlook …