Brine-dependent recovery processes in carbonate and sandstone petroleum reservoirs: review of laboratory-field studies, interfacial mechanisms and modeling …

AN Awolayo, HK Sarma, LX Nghiem - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Brine-dependent recovery, which involves injected water ionic composition and strength,
has seen much global research efforts in the past two decades because of its benefits over …

The state-of-the-art of wettability alteration in sandstones and carbonates: A mechanistic review

Y Noruzi, M Sharifi, J Fahimpour, M Sabet, M Akbari… - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Wettability modification plays a pivotal role in augmenting oil recovery from hydrocarbon
reservoirs, rendering it a primary focal point during Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) …

Predicting field production rates for waterflooding using a machine learning-based proxy model

Z Zhong, AY Sun, Y Wang, B Ren - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Waterflooding, during which water is injected in the reservoir to increase pressure and
therefore boost oil production, is extensively used as a secondary oil recovery technology …

Preparation and properties of degradable hydrogels as a temporary plugging agent used for acidizing treatments to enhance oil recovery

K Wang, G Liu, Y Guo, H Yang, Z Chen, G Su… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Temporary plugging and diverting acidizing treatments have been proved to be a simple
and effective method in stimulating the conventional/unconventional reservoirs. Importantly …

Pore-scale study of mineral dissolution in heterogeneous structures and deep learning prediction of permeability

Z Wang, L Chen, H Wei, Z Dai, Q Kang, WQ Tao - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Reactive transport processes in porous media with dissolution of solid structures are widely
encountered in scientific and engineering problems. In the present work, the reactive …

Effects of fines migration on residual oil during low-salinity waterflooding

A Al-Sarihi, A Zeinijahromi, L Genolet, A Behr… - Energy & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A novel mechanism of residual oil reduction during low-salinity water flooding by induced
fines migration and consequent permeability damage is discovered. Dry corefloods (without …

Synergistic effect of Polymer-Augmented low salinity flooding for oil recovery efficiency in Illite-Sand porous media

MB Abdullahi, SR Jufar, S Kumar, TM Al-Shami… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Low salinity water (LSW) flooding is a novel and emerging technique for oil recovery and
has received significant attention recently by petroleum industries as an efficient …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the mechanisms of low salinity water/surfactant/nanoparticles and the potential synergistic application for c-EOR

SSS Lim, H Elochukwu, J Nandong, Z Bennour… - Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
Chemical enhanced oil recovery (c-EOR) is a conventional and promising strategy to
recover oil from reservoir techniques such as low salinity water flooding (LSWF), surfactant …

Frozen core experimental study on oil-water distribution characteristics at different stages of water flooding in low permeability oil reservoirs

J Wei, S Liang, D Zhang, J Li, R Zhou - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The distribution pattern of oil and water in different stages of low permeability reservoirs is
one of the main research topics in oilfield development. This paper takes low-permeability …

The role of salt dissolution on the evolution of petrophysical properties in saline-lacustrine carbonate reservoirs: Pore structure, porosity–permeability, and mechanics

Q Tan, Y Kang, L You, H Peng, F Zhao, J Bai - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
The invasion of low-salinity fluids into saline-lacustrine reservoirs may induce salt
dissolution, resulting in significant changes in petrophysical properties. Accurate …