Research progress of viscoelastic surfactants for enhanced oil recovery

R Hu, S Tang, M Mpelwa, Z Jiang… - Energy Exploration & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although new energy has been widely used in our lives, oil is still one of the main energy
sources in the world. After the application of traditional oil recovery methods, there are still a …

Emulsification and stabilization mechanism of crude oil emulsion by surfactant synergistic amphiphilic polymer system

H Zhao, W Kang, H Yang, Z Huang, B Zhou… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2021 - Elsevier
Both amphiphilic polymer and surfactant can be used to enhance oil recovery (EOR) by
emulsifying crude oil. In this work, the emulsifying ability and emulsion stability of …

Self-assembly and viscosity changes of binary surfactant solutions: A molecular dynamics study

J Zhou, PG Ranjith - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypothesis: Structure and self-assembly of surfactants in the solution shows a fundamental
influence on its viscosity. Through molecular simulations using Martini force field, synergistic …

Cryogenic viscoelastic surfactant fluids: Fabrication and application in a subzero environment

H Yin, Y Feng, P Li, J Doutch, Y Han, Y Mei - Journal of Colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Current viscoelastic surfactant (VES) aqueous solutions quickly freeze and thus,
lose their viscoelasticity and flowability at subzero temperatures, limiting their practical use …

[HTML][HTML] Synergistic effect of nanoparticles and viscoelastic surfactants to improve properties of drilling fluids

Y Villada, LJ Giraldo, C Cardona, D Estenoz… - Petroleum Science, 2024 - Elsevier
The conservation of rheological and filtration properties of drilling fluids is essential during
drilling operations. However, high-pressure and high-temperature conditions may affect …

Studies on viscoelastic surfactants for its potential EOR application in the low permeability reservoirs

Y Zhu, J Fan, X Liu, J Li - SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference?, 2016 - onepetro.org
Chemical flooding technology is one of the effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods
for high water cut sandstone reservoirs with either medium and/or high permeability …

A new low interfacial tension viscoelastic surfactant for EOR applications in low permeability reservoirs

R Hu, S Tang, M Mpelwa, L **, H Deng… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - jase.tku.edu.tw
The development of low permeability reservoirs has become the main battlefield for oil field
exploitation. However, due to its special and complicated geological conditions, the existing …

ART-SM: Boosting Fragment-based Backmap** by Machine Learning

C Pfaendner, V Korn, P Gogoi, B Unger, K Pluhackova - 2025 - chemrxiv.org
In sequential multiscale molecular dynamics simulations, which advantageously combine
the increased sampling and dynamics at coarse-grained resolution with the higher accuracy …

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Y Villada, LJ Giraldo, C Cardona, D Estenoz, G Rosero… - 2024 - cup.edu.cn
abstract The conservation of rheological and filtration properties of drilling fluids is essential
during drilling operations. However, high-pressure and high-temperature conditions may …

Study of worm‐like micelles of alcohol propoxylated sulfate/alcohol ethoxylated surfactants mixtures for crude oil recovery

M Guevara, AL Cárdenas, A Forgiarini - Journal of Surfactants and … - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Systems with elongated cylindrical micelles, also known as worm‐like micelles
(WM) or viscoelastic surfactants (VES), have high surface activity and high viscosity, which …