Polymer enhanced foam for improving oil recovery in oil-wet carbonate reservoirs: A proof of concept and insights into the polymer-surfactant interactions

Q Wu, L Ding, L Zhang, J Ge, MA Rahman… - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The feasibility of polymer enhanced foam (PEF) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in a
strongly oil-wet and heterogeneous carbonate reservoir with medium temperature (131° F) …

Experimental evaluation of foam-assisted gas injection in proppant-packed fractured oil-wet carbonate

MI Youssif, KV Sharma, L Goual, M Piri - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
Foam flooding in fractured tight oil reservoirs can enhance gas mobility and conformance
control by diverting gas flow from high-permeability zones (fractures) to low-permeability …

Effect of pore-throat structure on air-foam flooding performance in a low-permeability reservoir

G Liu, Y Ding, J Wang, L Ge, X Chen, D Yang - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, effect of pore-throat structure on air-foam displacement performance in a low-
permeability reservoir has been experimentally examined. More specifically, porosity and …

Displacement characteristics of worm-like micelle CO2 foam and treatment of produced liquid

J Wang, W Duan, J Wang, X He, L Tang, N Lai - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The stability of CO 2 foam seriously restricts its stimulation effect in low-permeability
reservoirs, and the presence of foaming agents and foam stabilizers in the system will make …

Application of biopolysaccharide green foam fluid to enhance CO2 sequestration in high-temperature and high-salinity saline aquifer

Y Wen, N Zheng, L Xu, W Gao, Y Hou, T Ouyang… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Saline aquifer, a geological body, is widely distributed in the world and has high CO 2
sequestration potential. Due to the large differences in viscosity and density between the CO …

Probing the effect of wettability on transport behavior of foam for enhanced oil recovery in a carbonate reservoir

Q Wu, L Ding, J Ge, D Guérillot - Energy & Fuels, 2021 - ACS Publications
Foam for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs is generally challenging because
the oil-wet formation is not favorable for generating and stabilizing the lamellae. With an …

Analysis of Foam Mobility and Foam Texture in Heterogeneous Microfluidic Porous Media

Y Wang, M Puerto, C Bai, K Ma, K Mateen… - Industrial & …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Foams are essential in applications ranging from enhanced oil recovery in the oil industry to
carbon sequestration in hydraulic fracking sites. Thus, there is a great interest in …

CO2-foam flood with wettability alteration for oil-wet carbonate reservoirs

J Pang, K Mohanty - Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) flooding in carbonate reservoirs often suffers from poor sweep
efficiency, attributed to unfavorable mobility ratio, gravity segregation, and reservoir …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the deformation and breakup of a surfactant-coated droplet on a roughness solid surface in shear flow

D Deng, H Dong, Y Liang, Z Zhao - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A surfactant-coated droplet attached to a rough wall subjected to shear flow is investigated
using a coupled lattice Boltzmann with the finite difference method, where a contact angle …

An investigation of factors affecting Low Tension Gas process for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs

A Das, M Monette, R Nasralla, S Kahrobaei… - Petroleum Science …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Laboratory scale experiments have established LTG (Low Tension Gas) flooding to be a
promising EOR method in low permeability and high salinity carbonate reservoirs for both …