[HTML][HTML] Literature review of low salinity waterflooding from a length and time scale perspective

WB Bartels, H Mahani, S Berg, SM Hassanizadeh - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Review of low salinity waterflooding in carbonate rocks: mechanisms, investigation techniques, and future directions

JT Tetteh, PV Brady, RB Ghahfarokhi - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review analyses the fundamental thermodynamic theory of the crude oil-brine-rock
(COBR) interface and the underlying rock-brine and oil-brine interactions. The available …

Silica diagenesis, porosity evolution, and mechanical behavior in siliceous mudstones, Mowry Shale (Cretaceous), Rocky Mountains, USA

KL Milliken, T Olson - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Quartz in mudstones of the Mowry Shale (Cretaceous, Rocky Mountain region) takes several
forms: extrabasinal detrital silt (some with transported overgrowths), replacement of skeletal …

The role of emulsification and IFT reduction in recovering heavy oil during alkaline‑surfactant-assisted CO2 foam flooding: an experimental study

J Zhao, F Torabi, J Yang - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive experimental study is performed to investigate the performance of alkali-
surfactant (AS) assisted foam flooding as a means of tertiary Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) …

The effect of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles on wettability and brine-oil interfacial tension as enhance oil recovery mechanisms

EN Ngouangna, MZ Jaafar, M Norddin, A Agi… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel concept of utilizing nanoparticles (NPs) to boost oil recovery and reduce entrapped
oil in hydrocarbon reservoirs is being explored. The use of nanofluids (NFs) flooding to …

Relative permeability of homogenous‐wet and mixed‐wet porous media as determined by pore‐scale lattice Boltzmann modeling

CJ Landry, ZT Karpyn, O Ayala - Water Resources Research, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a pore‐scale study of two‐phase relative permeability in homogenous‐wet
porous media, and porous media altered to a mixed‐wet state. A Shan‐Chen type …

Proper use of capillary number in chemical flooding

H Guo, M Dou, W Hanqing, F Wang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Capillary number theory is very important for chemical flooding enhanced oil recovery. The
difference between microscopic capillary number and the microscopic one is easy to …

The role of the spatial heterogeneity and correlation length of surface wettability on two-phase flow in a CO2-water-rock system

R Guo, LE Dalton, M Fan, J McClure, L Zeng… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study characterized and modeled heterogeneous surface wettability in sandstone and
investigated the role of spatial heterogeneity and correlation length of surface wettability on …

Nanoparticle-stabilized microemulsions for enhanced oil recovery from heterogeneous rocks

T Qin, L Goual, M Piri, Z Hu, D Wen - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Surfactant-stabilized microemulsions (MEs) are often used to reduce the capillary forces
responsible for trapping residual oil inside rocks. Recent studies showed that the presence …

Experimental and theoretical evidence for increased ganglion dynamics during fractional flow in mixed‐wet porous media

S Zou, RT Armstrong, JY Arns, CH Arns… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray microtomography (micro‐CT) provides a nondestructive way for estimating rock
properties such as relative permeability. Relative permeability is computed on the fluid …