A review of wettability alteration using surfactants in carbonate reservoirs

Y Yao, M Wei, W Kang - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The wettability of carbonate rocks is often oil-wet or mixed wet. A large fraction of oil is still
remained in carbonate reservoirs, it is therefore of particular significance to implement …

[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 …

A review on surfactant retention on rocks: mechanisms, measurements, and influencing factors

S Kalam, SA Abu-Khamsin, MS Kamal, S Patil - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Surfactants play a vital role in chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR). The amount of
surfactant loss caused by retention during flooding through reservoir rock is still a challenge …

A review on wettability alteration in carbonate rocks: Wettability modifiers

X Deng, MS Kamal, S Patil, SMS Hussain… - Energy & Fuels, 2019 - ACS Publications
More than half of the global oil reserves are in carbonate reservoirs. Carbonate rocks,
however, in most cases tend to be mixed-wet or oil-wet. Wettability alteration of carbonate …

Surfactant adsorption in surfactant-polymer flooding for carbonate reservoirs

J Wang, M Han, AB Fuseni, D Cao - SPE Middle East Oil and Gas …, 2015 - onepetro.org
Surfactant related chemical flooding has great potential for improving oil recovery in
carbonate reservoirs, as surfactants are able to effectively lower the oil/water interfacial …

Characterization of rock-fluid and fluid-fluid interactions in presence of a family of synthesized zwitterionic surfactants for application in enhanced oil recovery

A Kumar, A Mandal - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Zwitterionic surfactants are gaining importance for their application in enhanced oil recovery
(EOR) because of their favourable thermodynamic and surface properties. A family of …

Calcite–Brine Interface and Its Implications in Oilfield Applications: Insights from Zeta Potential Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

I Mohammed, S Abdel-Azeim, DA Shehri… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbonate reservoirs are made up of predominantly calcite and dolomite minerals and hold
significant hydrocarbon reserves globally. However, the production from carbonate …

Smartwater synergy with chemical enhanced oil recovery: Polymer effects on smartwater

AM AlSofi, J Wang, AM AlBoqmi, MB AlOtaibi… - … Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2019 - onepetro.org
The synergy between various enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) processes has always been
raised as a potential optimization route for achieving a more-economic and more-effective …

SmartWater synergy with chemical EOR: Effects on polymer injectivity, retention and acceleration

AM AlSofi, J Wang, ZF Kaidar - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The synergy between various enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes has always been
raised as a potential optimization route for achieving a more economic and effective EOR …

A review on polymer, gas, surfactant and nanoparticle adsorption modeling in porous media

I Mohammed, CC Afagwu, S Adjei… - Oil & Gas Science …, 2020 - ogst.ifpenergiesnouvelles.fr
Adsorption is a rock surface phenomenon and has increasingly become popular, especially
in particle-transport applications across many fields. This has drawn a remarkable number of …