[HTML][HTML] Review on chemical enhanced oil recovery using polymer flooding: Fundamentals, experimental and numerical simulation

AM Firozjaii, HR Saghafi - Petroleum, 2020 - Elsevier
The EOR techniques are employed to recover more oil from mature reservoirs after the
primary and secondary oil production stages. Polymer flooding as a chemical EOR method …

Manifestations of surfactant-polymer flooding for successful field applications in carbonates under harsh conditions: A comprehensive review

AM Hassan, EW Al-Shalabi, W Alameri… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most oil fields today are mature, and the majority of the reservoirs in the Middle East are
carbonate rocks characterized by high temperature high salinity (HTHS), heterogeneous …

A perspective review on the current status and development of polymer flooding in enhanced oil recovery using polymeric nanofluids

M Ambaliya, A Bera - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The globally increasing demand for crude oil has prompted the oil industry to enhance oil
production from primary, secondary, and tertiary recovery methods to fulfill the global …

Ultra-low interfacial tension Anionic/Cationic surfactants system with excellent emulsification ability for enhanced oil recovery

J Liu, S Liu, L Zhong, P Wang, P Gao, Q Guo - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
Droplet size and stability of the O/W emulsion formed by heavy oil determine its fluidity in
formation porous media. Hence, an anionic/cationic surfactants system of with excellent …

Nanoemulsion flooding for enhanced oil recovery: Theoretical concepts, numerical simulation and history match

N Kumar, N Pal, A Mandal - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
In current scenario of depleting oil reserves, chemical flooding is a vital enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) technique. Present study discusses laboratory flooding experiments of …

Experimental investigation of polymer flooding with low-salinity preconditioning of high temperature–high-salinity carbonate reservoir

U Alfazazi, W AlAmeri, MR Hashmet - Journal of Petroleum Exploration …, 2019 - Springer
Application of polymer flooding in high temperature–high salinity (HTHS) carbonate
reservoirs is challenging due to lack of polymers that can withstand such harsh reservoir …

Experimental investigation of polymer injectivity and retention under harsh carbonate reservoir conditions

U Alfazazi, NC Thomas, W Alameri… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymer flooding is a well-established enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique for mobility
control. However, several factors affect a successful application of polymer at field-scale …

Screening of new HPAM base polymers for applications in high temperature and high salinity carbonate reservoirs

U Alfazazi, W AlAmeri, MR Hashmet - Abu Dhabi International …, 2018 - onepetro.org
Application of polymer flooding technique under extreme reservoir conditions (~ 120° C and
167000 ppm) is still of great concern. In high temperature and high salinity (HTHS) …

Numerical simulation of enhanced oil recovery studies for aqueous gemini surfactant‐polymer‐nanoparticle systems

N Pal, A Mandal - AIChE Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The article investigates the efficacy of gemini surfactant/polymer/nanoparticle flooding on
chemical EOR. Initially, physicochemical behavior of aqueous chemical fluids were …

Enhanced oil recovery by polymer flooding: Optimizing polymer injectivity

B Al-Shakry, BS Shiran, T Skauge… - Spe kingdom of saudi …, 2018 - onepetro.org
Polymer flooding has been widely applied through past decades to increase oil recovery
after waterflood. Water-soluble polymers are used to increase the viscosity of injected water …