Modeling Wettability Alteration by Surfactants in Naturally Fractured ...

The goal of this research is to adapt an existing numerical reservoir simulator to model chemical processes leading to wettability alteration in naturally ...

wettability alteration in naturally fractured reservoirs. Surfactants have been used to change the wettability, with the goal of increas-.

Modeling Wettability Alteration By Surfactants in Naturally Fractured ...

A chemical-flooding simulator is adapted to model improved-oil-recovery processes involving wettability alteration using surfactants. Multiple relative ...

Modeling Wettability Alteration Using Chemical EOR Processes in ...

Three-dimensional simulations of dilute surfactant flooding in a naturally fractured reservoir model demonstrated the significance of wettability alteration ...

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One of the main applications of this model would be in simulation of surfactant floods in naturally fractured reservoirs (NFR), where imbibition of the ...

Modeling Wettability Alteration in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Mentioning: 8 - Laboratory surfactant and hot water floods have shown a great potential in increasing oil recovery for reservoirs that are naturally ...

Mechanistic Study of Wettability Alteration Using Surfactants with ...

In naturally fractured reservoirs, oil recovery from waterflooding relies on the spontaneous imbibition of water to expel oil from the ...

Modeling Wettability Alteration in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs ...

We have adapted the chemical flooding simulator, UTCHEM, to model improved oil recovery processes that involve wettability alteration using surfactants.

Modeling wettability alteration in naturally fractured carbonate ...

Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes such as surfactant-induced wettability alteration and interfacial tension reduction are required to decrease the ...

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Modeling Wettability Alteration by Surfactants in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. Overview of attention for article published in SPE Reservoir Evaluation ...

Modeling wettability alteration effect on well performance in Permian ...

The great success of EDFM in modeling complex fracture geometries makes it possible to simulate the surfactant injection in complex fractured ...

Modeling Wettability Alteration using Chemical EOR Processes in ...

This will be a unique simulator that can model surfactant floods in naturally fractured reservoir with coupling of wettability effects on relative ...

Mechanistic study of wettability alteration using surfactants with ...

Mechanistic study of wettability alteration using surfactants with ... in naturally fractured reservoirs. Langmuir. 2008 Dec 16;24(24):14099-107. doi: ...

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adapting UTCHEM to model the wettability alteration in both conventional and naturally fractured reservoirs. This will be a unique simulator ...

Experiments and modeling of wettability alteration in low ...

Wettability alteration provides a possible solution to enhance oil recovery in oil/mixed-wet fractured formations. Different chemicals such as surfactants, ...

A critical review on fundamental mechanisms of spontaneous ...

A mechanistic model for wettability ... Mechanistic study of wettability alteration using surfactants with applications in naturally fractured ...

Dynamic wettability alteration in naturally fractured rocks

The wettability-altering agents in the aqueous phase make both fractures and matrix water-wet. However, the intensity of the alteration ...

Beneficial effects of wettability altering surfactants in oil-wet fractured ...

Conclusions · 1. A new procedure to simulate the surfactant-induced wettability alteration process taking place in a fractured reservoir has been developed and ...

A new surfactant wettability alteration model for reservoir simulators

Surfactants enhance oil recovery in naturally-fractured oil-wet rocks by wettability alteration and interfacial tension reduction.

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