A general review of CO2 sequestration in underground geological formations and assessment of depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Niger Delta

PA Eigbe, OO Ajayi, OT Olakoyejo, OL Fadipe, S Efe… - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the viability of CO 2 storage in geological formations, including
depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs applying 3-dimensional seismic and well data of the Niger …

Organic contaminant transport and fate in the subsurface: Evolution of knowledge and understanding

HI Essaid, BA Bekins… - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic organic contaminants may enter the subsurface as slightly soluble and volatile
nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) or as dissolved solutes resulting in contaminant plumes …

[LIBRO][B] Multiphase flow in permeable media: A pore-scale perspective

MJ Blunt - 2017 - books.google.com
Hydrocarbon production, gas recovery from shale, CO2 storage and water management
have a common scientific underpinning: multiphase flow in porous media. This book …

Dynamics of snap-off and pore-filling events during two-phase fluid flow in permeable media

K Singh, H Menke, M Andrew, Q Lin, C Rau, MJ Blunt… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding the pore-scale dynamics of two-phase fluid flow in permeable media is
important in many processes such as water infiltration in soils, oil recovery, and geo …

Wettability in complex porous materials, the mixed-wet state, and its relationship to surface roughness

A AlRatrout, MJ Blunt, B Bijeljic - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
A quantitative in situ characterization of the impact of surface roughness on wettability in
porous media is currently lacking. We use reservoir condition micrometer-resolution X-ray …

From connected pathway flow to ganglion dynamics

M Rücker, S Berg, RT Armstrong… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
During imbibition, initially connected oil is displaced until it is trapped as immobile clusters.
While initial and final states have been well described before, here we image the dynamic …

Review of low salinity waterflooding mechanisms: Wettability alteration and its impact on oil recovery

F Liu, M Wang - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Low salinity waterflooding (LSW) has attracted attention of numerous researchers as a
promising technique for enhanced oil recovery, yet its application is still limited because of …

Minimal surfaces in porous media: Pore-scale imaging of multiphase flow in an altered-wettability Bentheimer sandstone

Q Lin, B Bijeljic, S Berg, R Pini, MJ Blunt, S Krevor - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
High-resolution x-ray imaging was used in combination with differential pressure
measurements to measure relative permeability and capillary pressure simultaneously …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic method for estimation of in situ effective contact angle from X-ray micro tomography images of two-phase flow in porous media

A Scanziani, K Singh, MJ Blunt… - Journal of colloid and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Multiphase flow in porous media is strongly influenced by the wettability of the system, which
affects the arrangement of the interfaces of different phases residing in the pores. We …

The imaging of dynamic multiphase fluid flow using synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography at reservoir conditions

M Andrew, H Menke, MJ Blunt, B Bijeljic - Transport in Porous Media, 2015 - Springer
Fast synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography was used to image the injection of super-
critical CO _ 2 CO 2 under subsurface conditions into a brine-saturated carbonate sample at …