The depletion of conventional resources and steady increase in the global oil demands has
led to the shift of attention to the unconventional resources which are difficult to extract due …

Heavy-oil is and will be an essential part of energy supply. The most common and practical
way of producing any type of heavy-oil is steam injection; although this technique is both …

Oil recovery from fractured carbonate reservoirs by water flooding is often inefficient due to
the commonly oil-wet nature of these rocks and the lack of sufficient spontaneous capillary …

Foam has been used to improve the efficiency of steam injection since the late 1970s and
the process has been applied successfully in several fields in particular in California but …

Mechanistic simulation of alkaline/surfactant/polymer (ASP) flooding considers chemical
reactions between the alkali and the oil to form in-situ soap and reactions between the alkali …

This study presents a study of nanoclay-surfactant-stabilized foam to improve the oil
recovery of steam flooding in offshore heavy oil reservoirs. The foam stability and thermal …

Heavy oil represents a vital petroleum resource worldwide. As one of the major producers,
China is facing great challenges in effective and economic production of heavy oil due to …

This paper proposes a novel approach to model multiphase flow of hydrocarbons in
unconventional shale reservoirs. Understanding the storage/flow mechanisms from such …

Thermal and chemical recovery processes are important EOR methods used often by the oil
and gas industry to improve recovery of heavy oil and high viscous oil reservoirs …

The subject of heat transfer in oil reservoirs has gained huge attention, due to its diverse
range of applications in petroleum reservoir management and thermal recovery for …