New insights into the mechanism of surfactant enhanced oil recovery

The results show that in-situ emulsification improve oil recovery mainly through blocking and entrainment effects.

New insights into surfactant enhanced oil recovery - ScienceDirect

Surfactant flooding is one of the most effective processes for chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Two main mechanisms, oil-water interfacial ...

Oil solubilization in sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate micelles

Hypothesis: The current mechanism of surfactant enhanced oil recovery (EOR) mainly relies on forming middle-phase microemulsions to get ...

Oil solubilization in sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate micelles: New ...

The current mechanism of surfactant enhanced oil recovery (EOR) mainly relies on forming middle-phase microemulsions to get ultra-low oil-water interfacial ...

Advancements in Surfactant Carriers for Enhanced Oil Recovery

Surfactant carriers are an innovation in the EOR area with high potential for application. These systems can increase the oil recovery factor by ...

New insights into the mechanism of surfactant enhanced oil recovery

List of references · Aoudia, Novel surfactants for ultralow interfacial tension in a wide range of surfactant concentration and temperature, J. · Bera, ...

A new class of branched single chain surfactant for enhanced oil ...

This efficient surfactant examined by scientists at Swansea University is shown to improve the oil recovery by 72% in both low and high brine ...

Surfactant delivery systems for enhanced oil recovery - ChemRxiv

An alternative to meet this energy need is the increase of oil recovery in new or mature oils reservoirs. Research in the advanced oil recovery ...

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

BIO: Dr. Balhoff is the Director of the Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment (CSEE) at UT-Austin and a Professor in the ...

Oil solubilization in sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate micelles

Hypothesis: The current mechanism of surfactant enhanced oil recovery (EOR) mainly relies on forming middle-phase microemulsions to get ultra- ...

Insights into Enhanced Oil Recovery by Polymer‐Viscosity Reducing ...

Thus, inspired by the EOR mechanisms of SP flooding process, the polymer-viscosity reducing surfactant flooding (P-VRSF) system that was ...

Comprehensive Review on the Role of Surfactants in the Chemical ...

Among many EOR techniques, chemical EOR (cEOR) is one of the most widely used methods of oil extraction. Surfactants used in cEOR are ...

Micellar solubilization and in-situ emulsification

New insights into the mechanism of surfactant enhanced oil recovery: Micellar solubilization and in-situ emulsification. Xue-Zhi Zhao a, Guang-Zhi Liao b ...

Insight into the Chemistry of Surfactant-Based Enhanced Oil ...

... In addition, surfactant flooding has been proposed as one of the most promising chemical EOR processes to enhance oil recovery from low pressure depleted ...

Micromodel Studies of Surfactant Flooding for Enhanced Oil Recovery

The residual oil is mainly trapped by capillary pressure and cannot be recovered by further water injection. The addition of surfactant into the ...

4. Enhanced Oil Recovery | Surfactant Flooding | Part-1 - YouTube

Chemical techniques account for about one percent of U.S. EOR production ... April 2022: New Insights and Mechanisms for Chemical Enhanced Oil ...

New materials with important applications in enhanced oil recovery

The new nanoparticle-surfactant complexes, composed of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant and fumed silica nanoparticles (Si-NPs) have ...

Review of surfactant-assisted chemical enhanced oil recovery for ...

There are two mechanisms of wettability alteration by surfactants cited in the literature (Standnes and Austad 2000b). The first is the removal ...

A new class of branched single chain surfactant for enhanced oil ...

Barron at ESRI, Swansea University. It is shown to improve the oil recovery by 72% in both low and high brine solutions, a remarkable result for ...

Surfactant-Based Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes and Foam ...

The purpose of the research is to develop advanced, surfactant-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes based upon tailoring new high-performance and cost- ...