Review of surfactant-assisted chemical enhanced oil recovery for carbonate reservoirs: challenges and future perspectives

S Pal, M Mushtaq, F Banat, AM Al Sumaiti - Petroleum Science, 2018 - Springer
A significant fraction of the conventional oil reserves globally is in carbonate formations
which contain a substantial amount of residual oil. Since primary and secondary recovery …

Microemulsions: a novel approach to enhanced oil recovery: a review

A Bera, A Mandal - Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production …, 2015 - Springer
The trend of growing interest in alternative source of energy focuses on renewable products
worldwide. However, the situation of petroleum industries in many countries needs much …

Bentheimer sandstone revisited for experimental purposes

AE Peksa, KHAA Wolf, PLJ Zitha - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Bentheimer sandstone outcrop samples are ideal for laboratory studies due to their lateral
continuity and block scale homogeneous nature. Over the years they have been used to …

Recent advances of surfactant-stabilized N2/CO2 foams in enhanced oil recovery

L Sun, B Bai, B Wei, W Pu, P Wei, D Li, C Zhang - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

CO2-Soluble Nonionic Surfactants for Enhanced CO2 Storage via In Situ Foam Generation

LC Burrows, F Haeri, D Tapriyal, PG Shah… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Geologic carbon storage (GCS) is a rapidly evolving technology with the potential to reduce
the environmental impact of fossil fuel usage. Saline aquifers, which comprise a sandstone …

[HTML][HTML] Increased CO2 storage capacity using CO2-foam

T Føyen, B Brattekås, MA Fernø, A Barrabino… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reduction of the CO 2 mobility is beneficial during subsurface sequestration of
anthropogenic CO 2 in saline aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs by mitigating flow …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of modified CO2 injection at improving oil recovery and CO2 storage—Review and simulations

F Janna, F Le-Hussain - Energy Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Modified CO 2 injection refers to the injection of CO 2 premixed with one or more chemical
additives that enhance miscibility between CO 2 and oil. This paper has two main objectives …

A novel system for reducing CO2-crude oil minimum miscibility pressure with CO2-soluble surfactants

C Zhang, L **, P Wu, Z Li - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to its lower viscosity and thus better injectivity than water, CO 2 injection has attracted
lots of attention in tight oil recovery. Lowering the minimum miscible pressure (MMP) of CO 2 …

Ethanol enhanced anionic surfactant solubility in CO2 and CO2 foam stability: MD simulation and experimental investigations

C Zhang, P Wu, Z Li, T Liu, L Zhao, D Hu - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
CO 2 foam has been widely scrutinized as a potential candidate in enhanced oil recovery
while reducing CO 2 emissions through geo-sequestration due to the high-efficiency CO 2 …

Comprehensive characterization of pore and throat system for tight sandstone reservoirs and associated permeability determination method using SEM, rate …

H Gao, J Cao, C Wang, M He, L Dou, X Huang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2019 - Elsevier
Unconventional resource formations like tight sandstone reservoirs have complex pore and
throat structure that are hard to characterize in micro scale. In this research, the pore and …