Capillary imbibition, such as plant roots taking up water, reservoir rocks absorbing brine and
a tissue paper wiping stains, is pervasive occurred in nature, engineering and industrial …

Surfactant injection into a depleted hydrocarbon reservoir is one of the ways to reduce
residual oil saturation, thereby enhancing crude oil production. However, surfactants …

The wetting characteristics of shale rocks at representative subsurface conditions remain an
area of active debate. A precise characterization of shale wettability is essential for …

Spontaneous imbibition is of particular importance to oil recovery from fractured reservoirs.
There has been a surge in the growth of technical literature over the past 5 years. This …

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 …

Polar crude oil components can adsorb on mineral surfaces and alter their wetting
properties. Extrapolating from laboratory observations of wetting alteration to reservoir …

Low salinity waterflooding (LSW) has attracted attention of numerous researchers as a
promising technique for enhanced oil recovery, yet its application is still limited because of …

Mass transfer between fractures and matrix blocks is critical to oil recovery by waterflooding
in fractured reservoirs. A scaling equation has been used for rate of oil recovery by …

Previous studies of crude oil/brine/rock (COBR) and related systems showed that wettability
and its effect on oil recovery depend on numerous complex interactions. In the present work …

Although attention is given to the composition of the injected brine in a waterflood with
respect to compatibility with the formation, tests are not usually made to determine its effect …