Most oil fields today are mature, and the majority of the reservoirs in the Middle East are
carbonate rocks characterized by high temperature high salinity (HTHS), heterogeneous …

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

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 …

Biopolymers are gaining increased attention in the industry due to their unique
characteristics, including being cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and biodegradable. It …

We develop a method based on concept of exergy-return on exergy-investment (ERoEI) to
determine the energy efficiency and CO2 footprint of polymer and surfactant enhanced oil …

The growing energy demand has prompted the research community to seek more efficient
and sustainable resource extraction methods, particularly in the case of crude oil …

Ludwig Boltzmann suggested that natural selection was fundamentally a struggle among
organisms for available energy. Alfred Lotka argued that organisms that capture and use …

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 …

Intensive energy consumption and high pollutant emission have always been the obstacles
for achieving the sustainable development of the iron and steel (I&S) industry. The complex …

In this research, a novel natural-based polymer, the Aloe Vera biopolymer, is used to
improve the mobility of the injected water. Unlike most synthetic chemical polymers used for …