Improved oil recovery (IOR) includes enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and other technologies (i.e. fracturing, water injection optimization, etc.), have become important methods to increase the oil/gas production in petroleum industry. However,…
Spontaneous imbibition (SI) plays a key role in production mechanism of unconventional reservoirs. Trivially, with the goal of getting higher efficiency there always has been an incessantly research activities to develop the technology progressively.…
The ultimate recovery factor in tight and shale resources is limited and is usually in the range of 5–10%. Although high-intensity fracturing and refracturing can increase recovery, an enormous amount of oil will remain in place, hence the…
Improved oil recovery (IOR) includes enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and other technologies (i.e. fracturing, water injection optimization, etc.), have become important methods to increase the oil/gas production in petroleum industry. However,…
Hypothesis & Motivation Experimental data suggest a relationship between the macroscopic zeta potential measured on intact rock samples and the sample wettability. However, there is no pore-scale model to quantify this relationship. Methods We…
It has been observed that alkylpropoxy sulfates, sometimes called extended surfactants, exhibit an oil-induced viscoelastic behavior. This unique behavior occurs within the Winsor III microemulsion domain where the microemulsions are deemed…