Enhanced oil recovery from fractured carbonate reservoirs using nanoparticles with low salinity water and surfactant: A review on experimental and simulation studies

G Dordzie, M Dejam - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Nearly half of the world's oil reserves are found in carbonate reservoirs, which have
heterogeneous formation characteristics and are naturally fractured. Because of the …

Advances of spontaneous emulsification and its important applications in enhanced oil recovery process

Z Li, D Xu, Y Yuan, H Wu, J Hou, W Kang… - Advances in colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Emulsions, including oil-in-water (O/W) and water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions, can play important
roles in both controlling reservoir conformance and displacing residual oil for enhanced oil …

A review on application of nanoparticles for EOR purposes: history and current challenges

M Iravani, Z Khalilnezhad, A Khalilnezhad - Journal of Petroleum …, 2023 - Springer
Applications of nanotechnology in several fields of petroleum industry, eg, refinery, drilling
and enhanced oil recovery (EOR), have attracted a lot of attention, recently. This research …

Application of bare nanoparticle-based nanofluids in enhanced oil recovery

MS Alnarabiji, MM Husein - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanofluids offer many advantages over surfactant and polymer solutions during enhanced
oil recovery (EOR). This review discusses the current state and future prospects of …

Eco-friendly modified biopolymers for enhancing oil production: a review

SAM Abou-alfitooh, AN El-Hoshoudy - Journal of Polymers and the …, 2024 - Springer
Biopolymers are gaining increased attention in the industry due to their unique
characteristics, including being cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and biodegradable. It …

Status and progress of worldwide EOR field applications

Z Liu, Y Liang, Q Wang, Y Guo, M Gao, Z Wang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, EOR has been an important research topic in oilfield development and has
made greater contribution to worldwide oil production. Whereas, a few of available statistical …

Nanoparticles for enhancing heavy oil recovery: recent progress, challenges, and future perspectives

W Zhou, C **n, Y Chen, RD Mouhouadi, S Chen - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heavy oil is estimated to account for about 70% of the remaining oil reserves and
considered as the most promising and readily available oil resource to meet energy …

A comprehensive investigation of nanocomposite polymer flooding at reservoir conditions: New insights into enhanced oil recovery

KG Salem, AM Salem, MA Tantawy, AA Gawish… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2024 - Springer
Recently, the polymer-nanoparticle combination has garnered significant interest in
enhanced oil recovery (EOR) due to its promising experimental results. However, the …

Comprehensive review on the role of nanoparticles and nanofluids in chemical enhanced oil recovery: interfacial phenomenon, compatibility, scalability, and …

US Behera, S Poddar, MP Deshmukh… - Energy & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chemical-enhanced oil recovery (chemical-EOR) is a unique strategy that employs chemical
agents with special properties for enhancing crude oil recovery from matured reservoirs …

Bismuth-graphene nanohybrids: synthesis, reaction mechanisms, and photocatalytic applications—a review

M Usman, M Humayun, SS Shah, H Ullah, AA Tahir… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photocatalysis is a classical solution to energy conversion and environmental pollution
control problems. In photocatalysis, the development and exploration of new visible light …