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 …

The aging of the existing reservoirs makes the hydrocarbon extraction shift toward newer
reserves, and harsh conditioned carbonates, which possess high temperature and high …

A novel approach to improve viscous and viscoelastic properties by exploiting the pH and
salinity sensitivity of HPAM polymer is proposed in this paper. Polymer flooding is a well …

Analysis of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs (NFRs), as a highly heterogeneous and
complex system, requires a detailed study of the fracture-matrix interactions. The main …

Fast depletion in oil reserves has steered the petroleum industry towards develo** novel
enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques. The standalone EOR methods have associated …

The high efficiency of Low Salinity Water (LSW) injection in carbonates, leading to rock
wettability alteration from oil-wet to water-wet and, hence, resulting in better oil …

Low-salinity waterflooding and brine ion modification, in general, can improve displacement
efficiency in initially oil-wet reservoirs if it can alter wettability, but it is often a slow process …

Several studies have shown the synergetic benefits of combining various chemical
enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) methods with engineered waterflooding (EWF) in both …

The spontaneous imbibition process involves the fluid flow driven by gravity and capillary
forces between the matrix and fractures, which is a critical mechanism in oil production in …

Traditional nanoparticle and polymer-based enhanced oil recovery methods face
challenges such as nanoparticle agglomeration and polymer adsorption, particularly at …