Polymers play a significant role in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) due to their viscoelastic
properties and macromolecular structure. Herein, the mechanisms of the application of …

Water-based drilling fluids (WBDFs) are widely used for drilling oil and gas wells. Water-
based drilling fluids are considered economical and environmentally friendly compared to …

Surfactant flooding is an important technique used in enhanced oil recovery to reduce the
amount of oil in pore space of matrix rock. Surfactants are injected to mobilize residual oil by …

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 …

This paper provides an extensive review of the polymer concentrations, viscosities, and
bank sizes used during existing and previous polymer floods. On average, these values …

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

Multiphase systems and their behaviors/characteristics appear to be crucial in a variety of
industries such as the oil and gas sector, pharmaceutical industry, and food industry. In this …

As a supply for future fuel and energy demand, 95% of the bitumen deposits in North
America are expected to become a major source. The Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage …

In this work, the impact of molecular structure such as the degree of hydrolysis (DOH) and
nature of comonomers in acrylamide-based copolymers on the rheological and filtration …

Polymer flooding most commonly uses partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamides (HPAM)
injected to increase the declining oil production from mature fields. Apart from the improved …