A review on non-aqueous fracturing techniques in unconventional reservoirs

S Kalam, C Afagwu, J Al Jaberi, OM Siddig… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
Technical and environmental concerns, besides water conservation in remote areas, are
associated with the utilization of conventional water, oil, and polymer based fracturing …

A review of foam-based fracturing fluids applications: From lab studies to field implementations

A Abdelaal, MS Aljawad, Z Alyousef… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Perspectives of Foam Generation Techniques and Future Directions of Nanoparticle-Stabilized CO2 Foam for Enhanced Oil Recovery

S Bhatt, S Saraf, A Bera - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
Global demand for energy is increasing day by day rapidly as a result of the population,
industrial, and economic growth of develo** countries, especially in emerging market …

A state–of–art review on waterless gas shale fracturing technologies

MR Mojid, BM Negash, H Abdulelah, SR Jufar… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water reservation, especially in remote and drought-prone areas and environmental
concerns, are two major drawbacks of water-based fracturing. Waterless fracturing …

Probing the role of associative polymer on scCO2-Foam strength and rheology enhancement in bulk and porous media for improving oil displacement efficiency

AS Hanamertani, S Ahmed - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Foam mobility control technique has been extensively applied to encounter unfavorable
sweep efficiency during CO 2 injection in heterogeneous reservoirs. Harsh reservoir …

Gas adsorption and reserve estimation for conventional and unconventional gas resources

AE Radwan, DA Wood, M Mahmoud, Z Tariq - Sustainable geoscience for …, 2022 - Elsevier
This chapter describes the traditional approaches and recently developed models for in-
place natural gas resource and reserve estimation calculations suitable for reservoir rocks …

Graphene quantum dot-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery

AK Aboahmed, MI Youssif, M Piri… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surfactant-based foams have often been proposed as mobility control agents in enhanced
oil recovery (EOR); however, their lack of stability under reservoir conditions has limited their …

High thermal stability of foams stabilized by graphene oxide and zwitterionic surfactant nanocomposites for fracturing applications

A Alarawi, A Busaleh, TA Saleh, B Alharbi - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Develo** foamed fracturing fluids with excellent efficiency and low formation damage has
been essential to improve hydraulic fracturing performance in recent years. In the present …

Rheological study of CO2 foamed chelating stimulation fluids under harsh reservoir conditions

I Kadafur, A BinGhanim, MS Aljawad, MS Kamal… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Foamed acid is usually an HCl acid-based stimulation fluid applied to carbonate reservoirs.
However, this study investigates the rheology of a CO 2 foamed chelating agent, L-glutamic …

Rheological behavior of scCO2-Foam for improved hydrocarbon recovery: Experimental and deep learning approach

S Ahmed, W Alameri, WW Ahmed, SA Khan - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
CO 2 foam as a fracturing fluid for unconventional reservoir has been of huge interest due to
its potential in solving various challenges related to conventional water-based fracturing …