Low-salinity water flooding (LSW) is a promising new technique for enhancing oil recovery
(EOR) in both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. The potential of LSW has drawn the …

In recent years, research activity on the recovery technique known as low salinity
waterflooding has sharply increased. The main motivation for field application of low salinity …

It was observed that higher oil recovery could be obtained when low-salinity (LS) water
flooded a core of high-salinity initial water about 15 years ago. Such low-salinity …

Nearly half of the world's oil reserves are found in carbonate reservoirs, which have
heterogeneous formation characteristics and are naturally fractured. Because of the …

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the state of the art in an area of technology by describing recent developments for readers …

Literature review shows that improved oil recovery (IOR) by low‐salinity waterflooding could
be attributed to several mechanisms, such as sweep‐efficiency improvement, interfacial …

As brine composition profoundly influences reservoir wettability and hence microscopic
sweep, careful design of injection brine is part of a strategy to improve on oil production in …

Carbonate rock reservoirs comprise approximately 60% of the world's oil and gas reserves.
Complex flow mechanisms and strong adsorption of crude oil on carbonate formation …

Low-salinity (lowsal) waterflooding has been evaluated for increased oil recovery (IOR) at
the Snorre field. Coreflooding experiments and a single-well chemical tracer-test (SWCTT) …

Optimization of any oil-recovery process is based on understanding of the recovery
mechanisms, whereas the underlying mechanisms of improving oil recovery by low-salinity …