Foam generation, propagation and stability in porous medium

A Skauge, J Solbakken, PA Ormehaug… - Transport in Porous …, 2020 - Springer
There have been several foam field applications in recent years. Foam treatments targeting
gas mobility control in injectors as well as gas blocking in production wells have been …

A literature review of strength and stability of foam and their relationship with the absolute permeability of porous media

KZ Abdelgawad, AR Adebayo, A Isah… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The flow dynamics of foam in porous media during enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and aquifer
remediation is an area of active research. Foam performance therein is dependent on the …

Foam sweep in fractures for enhanced oil recovery

W Yan, CA Miller, GJ Hirasaki - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical …, 2006 - Elsevier
A theory for foam flow in a uniform fracture was developed and verified by experiment. The
apparent viscosity was found to be the sum of contributions arising from liquid between …

[HTML][HTML] A formulation based on a cationic surface-active ionic liquid and an anionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery at a carbonate reservoir

A Somoza, MF García-Mayoral, A Soto - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
With the still huge dependence on crude oil, it is crucial to develop enhanced oil recovery
techniques to improve reservoir production and lifespan. Carbonate reservoirs constitute …

Review on Foam-Assisted Gas Injection in Fractured Carbonates for Enhanced Oil Recovery

MI Youssif, M Piri, L Goual - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
Foam-assisted gas injection in fractured unconventional reservoirs has garnered
considerable attention as a result of its potential to address challenges associated with gas …

Methane foam performance evaluation in water-wet unconsolidated porous media: A systematic experimental investigation at elevated pressure and temperature …

S Le Van, MI Youssif, AS Hanamertani… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the petroleum industry, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques employ foam extensively
to establish conformance control in heterogeneous and fractured reservoirs in order to …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental evaluation of foams stabilized by ionic liquids for enhanced oil recovery

A Somoza, A Soto, J Pang, KK Mohanty - Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2023 - Elsevier
Foam injection has the potential to improve CO 2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and
simultaneous CO 2 sequestration processes by increasing sweep efficiency. However, the …

Experimental and simulation investigations of carbon storage associated with CO2 EOR in low-permeability reservoir

J Wei, X Zhou, J Zhou, J Li, A Wang - International Journal of Greenhouse …, 2021 - Elsevier
CO2 based water-alternating-gas (WAG) injection and surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG)
injection have shown to be two effective and practical methods to enhance oil recovery …

Foam flow in different pore systems—part 1: The roles of pore attributes and their variation on trapping and apparent viscosity of foam

AR Adebayo - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
Lateral propagation of foam in heterogeneous reservoirs, where pore geometries vary
laterally, depends on the roles of pore geometries on the foam properties. In this paper, the …

Foam performance in low permeability laminated sandstones

JS Solbakken, A Skauge, MG Aarra - Energy & fuels, 2014 - ACS Publications
Most studies on foam are related to homogeneous and highly permeable porous media. As
the reservoir situation is rather heterogeneous with respect to permeability and layering …