Polymer gel systems have been widely applied to control excessive water and improve oil
recovery (IOR) in petroleum reservoirs. They are usually divided into two main types, in-situ …

Imbibition is very common, occurring in life, material, chemistry, and energy. It plays an
important role in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The development of many reservoirs is …

The exploitation of oil from unconventional reservoirs remains a challenging engineering
project, and enhanced oil recovery by imbibition is a crucial approach to tackle this problem …

Spontaneous imbibition of nanofluid has attracted much interest in enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) in ultralow permeable reservoirs. However, the oil distribution in ultralow permeable …

Spontaneous imbibition is an important mechanism for developing fossil hydrogen energy.
However, the research of imbibition micromechanisms and scaling methods in tight …

Tight oil reservoirs are an unconventional hydrocarbon resource with great potential to help
meet energy demands. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has been extensively …

Tight oil and gas are becoming increasingly important energy sources in North America.
Spontaneous imbibition is an important mechanism in oil and gas recovery from tight …

When stimulated only by natural energy, tight oil reservoirs have low production efficiency.
Improving the potential for oil recovery by imbibition is essential to enhancing oil production …

Spontaneous imbibition (SI) plays a key role in production mechanism of unconventional
reservoirs. Trivially, with the goal of getting higher efficiency there always has been an …

As the water injected during hydraulic fracturing is imbibed and then displaced in the matrix
of tight reservoirs, it is meaningful to characterize the fluid distributions and percolation …