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Energy & Fuels
Satyajeet Rahevar, Abhijit Kakati, Ganesh Kumar, Jitendra Sangwai, Matthew Myers, Ahmed Al-Yaseri
Summary: Controlled salinity water flooding, or engineered water flood, is a potential enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method that has been tested in laboratory and at pilot/field scale. However, there have been cases where this method failed to show its potential for EOR, mainly due to a lack of understanding of the underlying mechanism specific to each case.
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Tahany Mahmoud, Nadia A. Samak, M. M. Abdelhamid, A. A. Aboulrous, Jianmin Xing
Summary: The study focused on enhancing biosurfactant production using bacteria isolated from Egyptian crude oils, showing promising results in improving surfactin and trehalose productivity by optimizing carbon sources and cultivation strategies. The properties and effectiveness of the produced biosurfactants were demonstrated through various tests, indicating their potential for enhanced oil recovery.
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Energy & Fuels
Marzieh Saadat, Junyi Yang, Marcin Dudek, Gisle Oye, Peichun Amy Tsai
Summary: Rock wettability has a significant impact on oil extraction efficiency. Experimental studies at the pore-scale revealed that wettability alteration affects oil recovery from rocks. Factors such as network design, brine concentration and composition influence the efficiency of recovery processes.
JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2021)
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Energy & Fuels
Mehdi Zallaghi, Ali Reza Khaz'ali
Summary: The study investigates the efficiency of a mixture of cationic and nonionic surfactants combined with smart water for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs. Through experiments and analysis, it demonstrates a strong synergy between low salinity water and surfactant for recovering oil from carbonate reservoirs, showing significant improvements in oil recovery.
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Chemistry, Physical
Ruxue Jia, Wanli Kang, Zhe Li, Hongbin Yang, Zhendong Gao, Zhongwen Zheng, Hailong Yang, Bobo Zhou, Haizhuang Jiang, Sarsenbek Turtabayev
Summary: This study systematically investigated the imbibition enhanced oil recovery (IEOR) effect of different surfactants in tight sandstone reservoirs. The results showed that the zwitterionic surfactant of erucic acid amide propyl betaine (EAPB) could effectively reduce rock wettability and oil-water interfacial tension (IFT) at low salinity and high temperature, thereby improving imbibition efficiency and IEOR.
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS
(2022)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Bennet Nii Tackie-Otoo, Mohammed Abdalla Ayoub Mohammed, Hazman Akmal Bin Mohd Zalghani, Anas M. Hassan, Pearl Isabellah Murungi, Grace Amabel Tabaaza
Summary: This study investigates the potential of a combination of 1-hexadecyl-3-methyl imidazolium bromide (C(16)mimBr) and monoethanolamine (ETA) as an alkali-surfactant (AS) formulation for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs at high salinity, high-temperature conditions.
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Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Abbas Shahrabadi, Parham Babakhani Dehkordi, Fatemeh Razavirad, Reza Noorimotlagh, Masoud Nasiri Zarandi
Summary: The study found that low salinity water injection has a significant effect on releasing trapped oil, and smart water flooding achieves the maximum oil recovery. Low salinity water and smart water have a significant impact on relative permeability curves, indicating wettability alteration.
NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH
(2022)
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Energy & Fuels
Liu Xuefen, Kang Yili, Yan Lingling, Tian Jian, Li Jianfeng, You Lijun
Summary: This study investigates the effect of different surfactants on changing rock surface tension and interfacial tension, as well as their impact on enhanced oil recovery in tight oil reservoirs. The results show that fluoride FC-1 and GS surfactant have the potential to alter wettability and reduce interfacial tension. The study reveals that changing rock wettability is more favorable for oil recovery in tight sandstone oil reservoirs than reducing interfacial tension.
Review
Energy & Fuels
Jamil Fadi El-Masry, Kamel Fahmi Bou-Hamdan, Azza Hashim Abbas, Dmitriy A. Martyushev
Summary: Chemicals play a crucial role in the oil and gas industry, particularly in Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). Nanoparticles have gained significant interest due to their unique physical and chemical properties, and numerous studies have been conducted to investigate their potential application in EOR. This paper reviews the most recent research on nanoparticles in oil, with a focus on EOR techniques and the potential improvements in oil recovery. It also highlights the challenges and gaps in implementing nanoparticles at a field scale, providing opportunities for further research and development.
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Energy & Fuels
Rohit Kumar Saw, Ajay Mandal
Summary: The low salinity water flooding (LSWF) technique is cost-effective and environmentally friendly, but its mechanisms are not yet clear. Recovery in LSWF depends on fluid/fluid and rock/fluid interactions. This study investigated both interactions and found different optimal conditions for improved oil recovery. Rock/fluid interaction showed an incremental recovery of 14%, while fluid/fluid interaction showed an incremental recovery of 7% over simple seawater injection. Results highlight the importance of considering both interactions and wettability alteration in LSWF design.
Review
Energy & Fuels
Ahmed Bashir, Amin Sharifi Haddad, Roozbeh Rafati
Summary: Surfactant-based oil recovery processes are used to lower interfacial tension and change the wettability of rock in immiscible displacement processes. The key factors affecting this process are temperature, salinity, pH, surfactant concentration, and adsorption. Chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) processes combine surfactants with other chemicals to exploit their synergy. This review study categorizes the role and displacement mechanisms of surfactants and discusses key factors for analyzing fluid displacement in porous media.
Review
Energy & Fuels
Afeez Gbadamosi, Shirish Patil, Dhafer Al Shehri, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, S. M. Shakil Hussain, Emad W. Al-Shalabi, Anas Mohammed Hassan
Summary: This article reviews the combination of low salinity waterflooding (LSWF) and chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) for improving oil production in reservoirs. Experimental and modeling results show that the combination of LSWF and chemical EOR is more efficient than individual EOR methods.
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Energy & Fuels
Zeta Nur Muhammad Yahya, Nadya Puteri Puspaseruni, Rani Kurnia, Deana Wahyuningrum, Irma Mulyani, Tito Wijayanto, Masanori Kurihara, Sigit Sulistio Waskito, Billal Maydika Aslam, Taufan Marhaendrajana
Summary: This study investigates the influence of aluminosilicate nanoparticles on the interfacial tension and wettability of anionic and nonionic surfactant mixtures in EOR processes. The results show that the addition of aluminosilicate nanoparticles reduces the contact angle and increases the interfacial tension, leading to contradictory effects on oil recovery.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ahmad Nourinia, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Seyed Reza Shadizadeh, Jagar A. Ali, Stefan Iglauer, Alireza Keshavarz, Amir H. Mohammadi, Muhammad Ali
Summary: Oil production faces challenges such as limited production from carbonate reservoirs, high costs, and environmental issues. Chemical flooding as an enhanced oil recovery method can increase production by adding surfactants. However, synthetic surfactants are costly and harmful. Researchers have turned to natural surfactants and the use of nanoparticles for enhanced oil recovery. This study extracted a natural surfactant from Cyclamen persicum and optimized its performance with a zinc oxide/montmorillonite nanocomposite. Experimental results showed improved oil recovery with the synergistic usage of the natural surfactant and nanoparticles.
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Energy & Fuels
Saman Khosravi Magham, Jagar A. Ali, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Pshtiwan T. Jaf, Buya S. Hisqel
Summary: In this study, the extract of the Passiflora plant was used as a natural surfactant for enhanced oil recovery. The optimal critical micelle concentration (CMC) was found to be 4 wt%, which resulted in a minimum interfacial tension (IFT) of 13 mN/m and a contact angle (CA) of 55 degrees on the surface of the carbonate rock. The surfactant solution enabled an additional 7.5% original oil in place (OOIP) to be extracted from the rock plug.
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