An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery: recent advances and prospects

AO Gbadamosi, R Junin, MA Manan, A Agi… - International Nano …, 2019 - Springer
Despite the progress made on renewable energy, oil and gas remains the world's primary
energy source. Meanwhile, large amounts of oil deposits remain unrecovered after …

A state-of-the-art review of nanoparticles application in petroleum with a focus on enhanced oil recovery

MN Agista, K Guo, Z Yu - Applied sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Research on nanotechnology application in the oil and gas industry has been growing
rapidly in the past decade, as evidenced by the number of scientific articles published in the …

Application of nanotechnology by means of nanoparticles and nanodispersions in oil recovery-A comprehensive review

A Bera, H Belhaj - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
The present review provides recent trend of nanotechnology in the upstream oil sector
research. The experimental developments in laboratory for possible field applications have …

[HTML][HTML] Application of nanotechnology for enhancing oil recovery–A review

C Negin, S Ali, Q Xie - Petroleum, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology has attracted a great attention in enhancing oil recovery (EOR) due to the
cost-effective and environmental friendly manner. The size of nanoparticles for EOR usually …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in application of nanotechnology in chemical enhanced oil recovery: Effects of nanoparticles on wettability alteration, interfacial tension …

JA Ali, K Kolo, AK Manshad, AH Mohammadi - Egyptian journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemical methods of enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) are applied for improving oil recovery
from different kinds of oil reservoirs due to their ability for modifying some crucial parameters …

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) using nanoparticle dispersions: underlying mechanism and imbibition experiments

H Zhang, A Nikolov, D Wasan - Energy & Fuels, 2014 - ACS Publications
This paper presents the results of imbibition tests using a reservoir crude oil and a reservoir
brine solution with a high salinity and a suitable nanofluid that displaces crude oil from …

The synergistic effects of nanoparticle-surfactant nanofluids in EOR applications

M Almahfood, B Bai - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques are receiving substantial attention worldwide due
to the major decline in the available oil resources. However, lots of challenges and …

Impact of metal oxide nanoparticles on enhanced oil recovery from limestone media at several temperatures

A Esfandyari Bayat, R Junin, A Samsuri… - Energy & …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Recently, researchers have proved the application of nanoparticles (NPs) for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) in ambient temperature. However, to our knowledge no attempt has been …

Review on application of nanoparticles for EOR purposes: A critical review of the opportunities and challenges

Y Kazemzadeh, S Shojaei, M Riazi, M Sharifi - Chinese Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles have already gained attentions for their countless potential applications in
enhanced oil recovery. Nano-sized particles would help to recover trapped oil by several …

Application of bare nanoparticle-based nanofluids in enhanced oil recovery

MS Alnarabiji, MM Husein - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanofluids offer many advantages over surfactant and polymer solutions during enhanced
oil recovery (EOR). This review discusses the current state and future prospects of …