Modeling Wettability Alteration using Chemical EOR Processes in ...

The effect of nanoparticles on wettability alteration for enhanced oil ...

They concluded that nanofluids are a good candidate for EOR in water-wet porous media and can alter wettability from water-wet to strongly water ...

Hybrid EOR Methods Utilizing Low-Salinity Water - IntechOpen

Low-salinity water (LSW) flooding has been applied in sandstone and carbonate formations to improve oil recovery. Wettability alteration by LSW has been ...

SPE 141462 Wettability Alteration and Foam Mobility Control in a ...

spinning drop method with a University of Texas model 300 spinning drop tensiometer. ... Surfactant Induced Wettability Alteration and Gravity Drainage EOR ...

Modeling Low Salinity Waterflooding: Ion Exchange, Geochemistry ...

Low salinity waterflood (LSW) has become an attractive enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method as it shows more advantages than conventional chemical EOR methods ...

A Review of Wettability Alteration by Spontaneous Imbibition Using ...

Hence, EOR methods such as engineered water (EW) flooding, LSW flooding, or combined methods with chemicals such as surfactants, alkalis, polymers, and ...

Enhanced oil recovery after polymer flooding by wettability alteration ...

(2008) Simulation study of improving oil recovery by polymer flooding in a Malaysian reservoir,. Master's Thesis, Faculty of Chemical and ...

Wettability Alteration Process at Pore-Scale during Engineered ...

We performed a pore scale modelling with different wetting surface in light of volume ... of the EOR mechanism by using low saline/smart water in ...

An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery: recent advances ...

Thus, it can be deduced that oil recovery is more easily achieved in water-wet compared to oil-wet reservoir. The use of surfactant for wettability alteration ...

Surfactant EOR Optimization Through Wettability Alteration

This is attributed to low permeability as well as the oil-wet nature of the rock. Therefore, wettability alteration using chemical additives can be a useful ...

SPE 146840 Pilot Testing Issues of Chemical EOR in Large ...

... Modeling and Assessment of Wettability Alteration Processes in Fractured Carbonate using Dual. Porosity and Discrete Fracture Approaches, SPE Improved Oil ...

Numerical Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) studies for ...

Initially, physico- chemical behavior of aqueous chemical fluids were investigated via interfacial tension reduction, wettability alteration, ...

Enhanced oil recovery after polymer flooding by wettability ... - HAL

wettability alteration to gas wetness using numerical simulation. ... process with wettability alteration to gas wetness. Besides, the oil ...

Numerical Validation of Chemical Compositional Model ... - De Gruyter

"Wetta- bility alteration" is used in literature to address any change in the original wettability of a rock, either spontaneously or by chemical flooding ...

Investigation of crude oil properties impact on wettability alteration ...

In low-salinity water flooding (LSWF), modifying the injected brine composition leads to greater oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs.

Numerical simulation of chemical EOR processes Druetta, Pablo

Effect of Surfactant‐Assisted Wettability Alteration on Immiscible ...

A stable displacement can be achieved at low velocity when wettability-altering surfactant solution is used as injection fluid. In comparison, ...

Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery: Where Do We Stand? Recent ...

As it can be seen in Table 3, the inclusion of nanoparticles and/or nanocomposites to surfactant solutions helps in wettability alteration of ...

Wettability Alteration and Enhanced Oil Recovery of Light and ...

In this study, silicon dioxide nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs) were employed to improve the efficiency of the chemical-EOR process that utilizes surfactant flooding.

New Insights and Mechanisms for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery ...

... processes of flow and transport through porous media. ABSTRACT: Water-based polymers are often used to improve oil recovery beyond a waterflood ...

Pore-scale simulation of wettability and interfacial tension effects on ...

For enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications, the oil/water flow characteristics during the flooding process was numerically investigated with ...