A review on clay wettability: From experimental investigations to molecular dynamics simulations

B Pan, X Yin, S Iglauer - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Clay is one of the most important mineral components in geological formations, and it is
widely used in many industrial applications. One clay property, which is of key importance in …

[HTML][HTML] A review of reservoir damage during hydraulic fracturing of deep and ultra-deep reservoirs

K Zhang, XF Liu, DB Wang, B Zheng, TH Chen… - Petroleum Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Deep and ultra-deep reservoirs have gradually become the primary focus of hydrocarbon
exploration as a result of a series of significant discoveries in deep hydrocarbon exploration …

Spontaneous imbibition in tight porous media with different wettability: Pore-scale simulation

W Lin, S Xiong, Y Liu, Y He, S Chu, S Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Spontaneous imbibition is significantly influenced by rock wettability, and it has been
extensively studied in core-based experiments and numerical simulations owing to its …

A critical review of enhanced oil recovery by imbibition: Theory and practice

W Tian, K Wu, Y Gao, Z Chen, Y Gao, J Li - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Imbibition is very common, occurring in life, material, chemistry, and energy. It plays an
important role in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The development of many reservoirs is …

Effect of total organic carbon (TOC) content on shale wettability at high pressure and high temperature conditions

B Pan, Y Li, M Zhang, X Wang, S Iglauer - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rock wettability is a key parameter determining fluids distributions and migrations in
hydrocarbon reservoirs. In shale rocks, the widespread existence of organic matter and the …

The interfacial properties of clay-coated quartz at reservoir conditions

B Pan, C Gong, X Wang, Y Li, S Iglauer - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Shale interfacial properties are important for CO 2 geo-sequestration and CH 4 recovery in
shale formation. In this work we use a newly-developed and well-defined shale model (ie a …

Effects of grain shape and packing pattern on spontaneous imbibition under different boundary conditions: Pore-scale simulation

Y Liu, M Chen, S Sun, Z Lei, J Zeng, J Cai - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Core-scale spontaneous imbibition experiments and numerical simulations have
demonstrated that the macroscopic imbibition performance is significantly different under …

Studies of the storage and transport of water and oil in organic-rich shale using vacuum imbibition method

S Zhang, Y Li, H Pu - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
The inorganic pores, organic pores, and kerogen matrix are important media to store water
and oil in shale rocks. We present a vacuum imbibition method to identify the volume of …

Achieving the super gas-wetting alteration by functionalized nano-silica for improving fluid flowing capacity in gas condensate reservoirs

Y Li, Y Wang, Q Wang, Z Liu, L Tang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
It is well-known that the production of gas-condensate reservoirs is significantly affected by
the liquid condensation near the wellbore region. Gas-wetting alteration can be one of the …

Interfacial interactions between Bakken crude oil and injected gases at reservoir temperature: A molecular dynamics simulation study

C Li, H Pu, X Zhong, Y Li, JX Zhao - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to large amounts of oil remain in the Bakken Formation, an effective enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) method is crucially important. Cyclic gas injection, like CO 2, methane, and …