Overview of methods for enhanced oil recovery from conventional and unconventional reservoirs

BV Malozyomov, NV Martyushev, VV Kukartsev… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
In world practice, the role of reproduction of raw material base of oil production by
implementing modern methods of oil recovery enhancement (thermal, gas, chemical …

Microbial surfactants: the next generation multifunctional biomolecules for applications in the petroleum industry and its associated environmental remediation

EO Fenibo, GN Ijoma, R Selvarajan, CB Chikere - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Surfactants are a broad category of tensio-active biomolecules with multifunctional
properties applications in diverse industrial sectors and processes. Surfactants are …

[HTML][HTML] Formation, stabilization and chemical demulsification of crude oil-in-water emulsions: A review

E Yonguep, KF Kapiamba, KJ Kabamba… - Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
The crude oil recovery process is frequently associated with the formation of stable
emulsions due to factors such as turbulent flow in pipelines and the presence of surface …

A comprehensive review on utilizing nanomaterials in enhanced oil recovery applications

JF El-Masry, KF Bou-Hamdan, AH Abbas… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chemicals are a pivotal part of many operations for the oil and gas industry. The purpose of
chemical application in the subsurface reservoir is to decrease the mobility ratio between the …

Development and application of a machine learning based multi-objective optimization workflow for CO2-EOR projects

J You, W Ampomah, Q Sun - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbon dioxide-Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO 2-EOR) is known as one of techniques
for hydrocarbon production improvement as wells as an important candidate to reduce …

Experimental investigation of interfacial properties in the EOR mechanisms by the novel synthesized Fe3O4@ Chitosan nanocomposites

H Rezvani, M Riazi, M Tabaei, Y Kazemzadeh… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles (NPs) have been considerably noticed in the oil and gas industries and
mainly in the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. They actually enhance the reservoir …

A comprehensive review on chemically enhanced water alternating gas/CO2 (CEWAG) injection for enhanced oil recovery

S Kumar, A Mandal - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Mobility control is a major concern in gas flooding process, and water-alternating-gas
injection (WAG) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), which can be improved by simultaneous …

Experimental investigation of Alfalfa natural surfactant and synergistic effects of Ca2+, Mg2+, and SO42− ions for EOR applications: Interfacial tension optimization …

M Eslahati, P Mehrabianfar, AA Isari… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fractured moderate oil-wet carbonate reservoirs are the main productive formations in the
Middle East. The change in wettability state toward water wetness beside interfacial tension …

Nanotechnology applied to thermal enhanced oil recovery processes: A review

OE Medina, C Olmos, SH Lopera, FB Cortés… - Energies, 2019 - mdpi.com
The increasing demand for fossil fuels and the depleting of light crude oil in the next years
generates the need to exploit heavy and unconventional crude oils. To face this challenge …

EOR processes, opportunities and technological advancements

LN Nwidee, S Theophilus, A Barifcani… - … Oil Recovery (cEOR …, 2016 - books.google.com
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes are well known for their efficiency in incre‐-menting
oil production; however, the selection of the most suitable method to adopt for specific field …