The efficiency improvement of steam injection (more oil, less steam) is a critical challenge in
heavy oil recovery. Using chemical additives is one option to achieve this efficiency …

Thermal recovery processes for heavy oil exploitation involve three-phase flow at elevated
temperatures. The mathematical modeling of such processes necessitates the account of …

We study the in situ distributions of contact angle and oil/brine interface curvature measured
within millimeter‐sized rock samples from a producing hydrocarbon carbonate reservoir …

Low salinity waterflooding (low salinity-EOR) has attracted great interest from many giant oil
producers and is currently under trial in some of the oil fields of the United States, Middle …

In this paper, the interfacial properties of a rock/heavy-oil/steam system were measured to
observe the degree of wettability alteration when adding new generation chemicals to steam …

Recently, many researchers have focused on the usage of electromagnetic waves in oil
production and well stimulation, but so far the effect of these waves on the fluid and rock …

We present numerical interpretations of two experimental sets of spontaneous‐imbibition
tests with combined cocurrent/countercurrent flow in high‐permeability, unconsolidated …

Phase change plays an essential role in wettability during steam injection, and oil becomes
the wetting phase in the steam zone. This study investigates this unfavorable phenomenon …

In the steam‐injection processing of unconsolidated heavy‐oil reservoirs, the pore space
may change because of the overburden pressure increase and wormhole generation …

Our previous research, honoring interfacial properties, revealed that the wettability state is
predominantly caused by phase change—transforming liquid phase to steam phase—with …