Polymer flooding is a proven chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (cEOR) method that boosts
oil production beyond waterflooding. Thorough theoretical and practical knowledge has …

Since the late 1960s, several enhanced–oil–recovery (EOR) researchers have developed
various continuum and pore–scale viscoelastic models for quantifying the altered injectivity …

Polymer flooding is drawing lots of attention because of the technical maturity in some
reservoirs. The first commercial polymer flooding in China was performed in the Daqing …

Spontaneous emulsification near the oil–water interface and destabilization of water-in-oil
emulsions in the bulk oil phase may affect the efficiency of improved oil recovery. In this …

Fractional flow theory still serves as a powerful tool for validation of numerical reservoir
models, understanding of the mechanisms, and interpretation of transport behavior in …

Polymer flooding is one of the well-established and commercially-available techniques for
enhanced oil recovery in the petroleum industry. It is the most widely adopted chemical …

Since the introduction of viscous/capillary concepts by Moore and Slobod (1956), several
modifications and advancements have been made to the capillary number (N c) so that it …

Polymer flooding is one of the most promising chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
techniques which have high incremental oil recovery factor (IORF), low cost and wide …

Polymer flooding has been traditionally applied to achieve favorable mobility ratios
compared to water flooding, and thus increase formation sweep efficiency in oil …

New and improved physical property models have been added to the UTCHEM reservoir
simulator to accommodate a broader range of polymer flooding applications and to improve …