An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery: recent advances and prospects

AO Gbadamosi, R Junin, MA Manan, A Agi… - International Nano …, 2019 - Springer
Despite the progress made on renewable energy, oil and gas remains the world's primary
energy source. Meanwhile, large amounts of oil deposits remain unrecovered after …

[HTML][HTML] Surfactants employed in conventional and unconventional reservoirs for enhanced oil recovery—A review

OT Isaac, H Pu, BA Oni, FA Samson - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the continuous depletion of crude oils in the reserves, and continuous rise in energy
demand, there is currently a widespread interest in various methods of chemical enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer flooding in high temperature, high salinity conditions: Selection of polymer type and polymer chemistry, thermal stability

S Jouenne - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
After 50 years of research and numerous commercial field applications around the world,
polymer flooding is considered as a proven EOR technique. However, until recently, its …

[HTML][HTML] A review of fluid displacement mechanisms in surfactant-based chemical enhanced oil recovery processes: Analyses of key influencing factors

A Bashir, AS Haddad, R Rafati - Petroleum Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Surfactant-based oil recovery processes are employed to lower the interfacial tension in
immiscible displacement processes, change the wettability of rock to a more water-wet …

Review on polymer flooding: rheology, adsorption, stability, and field applications of various polymer systems

MS Kamal, AS Sultan, UA Al-Mubaiyedh… - Polymer …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Polymer flooding is one of the most promising techniques for the recovery of remaining oil
from light oil reservoirs. Water soluble polymers are used to enhance the viscosity of …

Polymers for enhanced oil recovery: a paradigm for structure–property relationship in aqueous solution

DAZ Wever, F Picchioni, AA Broekhuis - Progress in polymer science, 2011 - Elsevier
Recent developments in the field of water-soluble polymers aimed at enhancing the
aqueous solution viscosity are reviewed. Classic and novel associating water-soluble …

Chemical enhanced oil recovery and the role of chemical product design

P Druetta, P Raffa, F Picchioni - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The current and prospective worldwide energy demands have led either to start exploiting
the more difficult and costly unconventional oil reserves, or to maximize the exploitation of …

Silica nanofluids in an oilfield polymer polyacrylamide: interfacial properties, wettability alteration, and applications for chemical enhanced oil recovery

T Sharma, S Iglauer, JS Sangwai - Industrial & Engineering …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Oil production from matured crude oil reservoirs is still associated with low recovery factors.
Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is one of the techniques which can significantly …

Literature review of implemented polymer field projects

DC Standnes, I Skjevrak - Journal of petroleum science and engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
Polymer flooding is a mature enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology applied in field
projects as early as the late 1950s. There exists extensive amount of experience, know-how …

A comprehensive review of viscoelastic polymer flooding in sandstone and carbonate rocks

M Zeynalli, M Mushtaq, EW Al-Shalabi, U Alfazazi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Polymer flooding is a proven chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (cEOR) method that boosts
oil production beyond waterflooding. Thorough theoretical and practical knowledge has …