Oil reservoir formation damage is a challenging issue associated with water and/or gas
reservoir flooding in secondary and tertiary oil recovery operations. Some enhanced oil …

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 …

Indubitably, polymer flooding is considered the most efficacious technique for chemically
enhanced oil recovery (EOR). However, its application shows practical limitations in terms of …

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 …

Countercurrent imbibition of the fracturing fluid is of much significance for enhancing oil
production in tight oil reservoirs during the shut-in period after hydraulic fracturing. The …

The use of nanofluids in enhanced oil recovery processes has gained attention due to the
possibility to intensify oil recovery from mature oil fields. When nanofluids are injected into …

Abstract Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques traditionally employ chemical flooding;
however, recent integration of nanoparticles (NPs) with water flooding has demonstrated …

Chemical flooding plays an important role in enhancing oil recovery due to many reasons,
including the viscosity-increment effect of polymer, wettability alteration effect of surfactant …

Surfactant adsorption has been a great challenge for surfactant-based chemically enhanced
oil recovery (cEOR) techniques as it directly reflects the overall efficiency of a cEOR project …

A stable nanofluid (NF) is crucial for success of nano-enhanced oil recovery (nEOR)
processes. However, this represents a significant challenge as nanoparticles (NPs) tend to …