Nanoparticles-stabilized foam has recently attracted increasing attention for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) applications, largely due to the potentially high stability of these foams in the …

When synthesized in a specific size range and with a special surface coating tailored to
achieve certain desired functionalities, nanoparticles exhibit unique properties with …

Geological CO2 storage is an emerging topic in energy and environmental community,
which is, as a commonly accepted sense, considered as the most promising and powerful …

Hydraulic fracturing, in the petroleum literature, refers to the injection of fluids at high
pressure to fracture a formation in a controlled and an artificial way to enhance the …

Foam has been applied in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for more than sixty years. The
surfactant-stabilized N 2/CO 2 foams are two of the most widely used foams in foam EOR …

Fluid–fluid interfaces, laden with polymers, particles or other surface-active moieties, often
show a rheologically complex response to deformations, in particular when strong lateral …

Foam-based fracturing fluid application in unconventional reservoirs has recently attracted
prodigious attention, due to their high apparent viscosity and ultra-low water contents, which …

As unconventional oil and gas have increasingly gained considerable attention, the
application of water-free fracturing technology represented by carbon dioxide (CO 2) …

Stabilization of CO 2-in-water (C/W) foams with surfactants at high temperature and high
salinity conditions is challenging given limitations in the solubility and thermal stability of …

An attractive alternative to mitigate the adverse effects of conventional water-based fluids on
the efficiency of hydraulic fracturing is to inject foam-based fracking fluids into reservoirs …