With the ever increasing demand for energy to meet the needs of growth in population and
improvement in the living standards in particular in developing countries, the abundant …

The nature of carbonate reservoirs promotes the adsorption of oil onto the rock surface
hence making oil recovery a challenge even with the interventions of varied chemical EOR …

The low-salinity effect (LSE) in carbonate rock has been less explored in comparison to
sandstone rock. Laboratory experiments have shown that brine composition and (somewhat …

After testing proposed models in the literature on sandstones and carbonates, we propose a
mechanistic surface-complexation-based model that quantitatively describes observations …

Precise characterization of carbonate wettability is challenging and is broadly debated in
recent past. While carbonates are known to be oil-wet, the influence of complex mineralogy …

How bitumen works with clay minerals is an essential matter for the application of nano-clay
minerals (eg, montmorillonite, vermiculite) in bitumen modification. In this paper, the …

Several studies conducted mainly on the laboratory scale indicate that in carbonate rocks oil
displacement can be influenced by the ionic composition of the brine, providing an …

We discuss the governing system for oil–water flow with varying water composition. The
model accounts for wettability alteration, which affects the relative permeability, and for …

The goal of this work is to systematically study the effect of wettability alteration and foaming,
either acting individually or synergistically, on tertiary oil recovery in oil-wet carbonate cores …

We report a novel approach that is based on the complexation and supramolecular
assembly of an amino-amide and maleic acid to control viscosity of aqueous displacement …