Oil reservoir formation damage is a challenging issue associated with water and/or gas
reservoir flooding in secondary and tertiary oil recovery operations. Some enhanced oil …

In nanotechnology, the green synthesis of nanoparticles (NPs) is a new research trend in
science and engineering because it is nontoxic or less hazardous, eco-friendly, efficient, and …

Carbon nanomaterials such as carbon quantum Dots (CQDs) and graphene quantum dots
(GQDs) have been attracting a great deal of attention recently due to their unique properties …

Nanofluid offers more opportunities and challenges over the traditional surfactant and
polymer solutions during enhanced oil recovery (commonly referred to as tertiary oil …

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) are of particular interest in multiple fields and in enhanced
oil recovery (EOR) due to their unique advantages and characteristics. Albeit several …

Nanoparticles are extensively used at lab scale to improve physicochemical characteristics
like interfacial tension, wettability, rheological behavior in different hydrocarbon recovery …

Nanoparticle application in enhanced oil recovery is emerging as a novel technology
because of their unique characteristics, viz. reduction of IFT, wettability alteration, and stable …

Oil reservoirs around the world are facing issues with the extraction ability of the accessible
natural resources in the oil fields. Recent investigations on oil recovery have revealed that …

Zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials show intriguing potential in the field of
unconventional oil resource development for reducing injection pressure and enhancing oil …

Graphene is a material formed with carbon atoms connected by sp2 hybridization. It is
extremely strong and very ductile, and is superhydrophobic and superlipophilic. It has …