A review of wettability alteration by spontaneous imbibition using low-salinity water in naturally fractured reservoirs

M Karimova, R Kashiri, P Pourafshary, R Hazlett - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Analysis of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs), as a highly heterogeneous and
complex system, requires a detailed study of the fracture-matrix interactions. The main …

Modeling investigation of low salinity water injection in sandstones and carbonates: Effect of Na+ and SO42−

C Esene, D Onalo, S Zendehboudi, L James, A Aborig… - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Low salinity water injection (LSWI) has gained great attention as a promising enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) method with numerous advantages (eg, economic and environmental …

Direct insights into the micro and macro scale mechanisms of symbiotic effect of SO42−, Mg2+, and Ca2+ ions concentration for smart waterflooding in the carbonated …

A Maghsoudian, A Esfandiarian, S Kord… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Up to now, a large number of studies revealed that smart waterflooding is a cost-effective
method by considering the effect of potential determining ions (PDI) on enhanced oil …

Wettability alteration during low-salinity water flooding

A Al-Bayati, CI Karunarathne, AS Al Jehani… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Low-salinity water flooding (LSWF) for hydrocarbon recovery has attracted industrial
attention, owing to its simplicity and economic feasibility. Although this topic has received …

[HTML][HTML] Applied random forest for parameter sensitivity of low salinity water Injection (LSWI) implementation on carbonate reservoir

F Hidayat, TMS Astsauri - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
This study applied a Machine Learning Algorithm based on Random Forest Regression for
eliminating the insignificant parameter and evaluating the correlation between each …

Synergising nanoparticles and low salinity waterflooding for enhanced oil recovery: A state-of-the-art review

AH Arain, BM Negash, N Yekeen, AS Farooqi… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rising energy demand and the rapid decline in conventional oil recovery have pushed
the petroleum industry to develop advanced oil recovery techniques. Despite the success of …

Smart water spontaneous imbibition into oil-wet carbonate reservoir cores: Symbiotic and individual behavior of potential determining ions

M Shirazi, J Farzaneh, S Kord, Y Tamsilian - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, application of the smart water injection, as a low-cost enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
method, has gained increasing attention by researchers. The presence of potential …

Novel smart water-based titania nanofluid for enhanced oil recovery

M Shirazi, S Kord, Y Tamsilian - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2019 - Elsevier
Smart water application in carbonate reservoirs has been recently gained a lot of attention
by researchers as a low-cost enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method. In this study, for the first …

Effect of ethylene oxide groups on calcite wettability reversal by nonionic surfactants: An experimental and molecular dynamics simulation investigation

J Tetteh, J Kubelka, L Qin, M Piri - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Ethoxylated nonionic surfactants are promising candidates for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) from oil-wet carbonate reservoirs due to their ability to reverse the mineral …

Low-salinity (enhanced) waterflooding in carbonate reservoirs

H Mahani, G Thyne - Recovery Improvement, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Low-salinity waterflooding (LSWF), as an enhanced waterflooding technique, is one
of the most researched incremental oil recovery/enhanced oil recovery (EOR) topics over the …