A comprehensive review of viscoelastic polymer flooding in sandstone and carbonate rocks

M Zeynalli, M Mushtaq, EW Al-Shalabi, U Alfazazi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Polymer flooding is a proven chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (cEOR) method that boosts
oil production beyond waterflooding. Thorough theoretical and practical knowledge has …

Quantification of the viscoelastic effects during polymer flooding: a critical review

MS Azad, JJ Trivedi - SPE Journal, 2019 - onepetro.org
Since the late 1960s, several enhanced–oil–recovery (EOR) researchers have developed
various continuum and pore–scale viscoelastic models for quantifying the altered injectivity …

Extensional effects during viscoelastic polymer flooding: understanding unresolved challenges

MS Azad, JJ Trivedi - SPE Journal, 2020 - onepetro.org
Several studies have tried to relate polymers' enhanced oil recovery (EOR) potential to their
viscoelastic characteristics such as onset, rheo thickening, extensional viscosity, and …

Quantification of Sor reduction during polymer flooding using extensional capillary number

MS Azad, JJ Trivedi - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
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 …

Simulation of viscoelastic polymer flooding-from the lab to the field

P Qi, H Lashgari, H Luo, M Delshad, G Pope… - SPE Annual Technical …, 2018 - onepetro.org
Experimental data in numerous publications show that viscoelastic polymers can
significantly reduce residual oil saturation under favorable conditions. The effect of …

On the reduction of the residual oil saturation through the injection of polymer and nanoparticle solutions

W Song, DG Hatzignatiou - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Polymer flooding has been traditionally applied to achieve favorable mobility ratios
compared to water flooding, and thus increase formation sweep efficiency in oil …

[图书][B] The effect of polymer viscoelasticity on residual oil saturation

P Qi - 2018 - search.proquest.com
Water-based polymers are often used to improve oil recovery by increasing sweep
efficiency. However, recent laboratory and field work have suggested these polymers, which …

Dissipative particle dynamics simulation and microscopic experimental study of emulsification performance of surfactant/polymer flooding

B Zhang, B Guan, W Liu, B Peng, S Cong - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polymers can increase the viscosity of water, reduce the relative permeability of the water
phase, and enhance the flowability of the oil phase; surfactants can form molecular films at …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of the polymer degradation on enhanced oil recovery processes

P Druetta, F Picchioni - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Polymer flooding is one of the most common and technically developed chemical Enhanced
Oil Recovery (EOR) processes. Its main function is to increase the carrying phase's (ie, water …

黏弹性聚合物驱渗流机理研究进展

钟会影, 史博文, 毕永斌, 沈文霞, 许严芮, 尹洪军… - 力学学报, 2023 - lxxb.cstam.org.cn
聚合物驱已成为国内外化学驱中提高原油采收率主要方法之一, 其在大庆油田的60
年开发稳产中起到重要作用, 在水驱基础上提高原油采收率达到约13%. 聚合物驱主要机理为 …