A New Predictive Method for CO2-Oil Minimum Miscibility Pressure by Dangke Ge, Haiying Cheng, Mingjun Cai, Yang Zhang, Peng Dong

“…Gas injection processes are among the effective methods for enhanced oil recovery. Miscible and/or near miscible gas injection processes are among the most widely used enhanced oil recovery techniques. …”
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Synthetic Method and Oil Displacement Capacity of Nano-MoS2 by Liang Zhang, Fujian Zhou, Guofa Lei, Bingyu Ge, Yuan Li, Guolin Yu, Longhao Zhao, Bojun Li, Erdong Yao

“…Therefore, nanomaterials have a great potential in the enhanced oil recovery. However, the current research on nanooil flooding materials mostly focuses on the evaluation of the oil-displacing effect, and the lack of research on the size of the oil-displacing materials for tight oil is obvious. …”
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The Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Flow Heterogeneity During Water Flooding for an Artificial Core Plate Model by Chen Jiang, Qingjie Liu, Kaiqi Leng, Zubo Zhang, Xu Chen, Tong Wu

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Carbon circular utilization and sequestration in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs: Towards a carbon-neutral China by Lin Wu, Zhengmeng Hou, Yang Li, Weidong Wang, Long Cheng, Junzhang Lin, Zhifeng Luo, Liangchao Huang

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Exact Solution for Non-Self-Similar Wave-Interaction Problem during Two-Phase Four-Component Flow in Porous Media by S. Borazjani, P. Bedrikovetsky, R. Farajzadeh

“…Analytical solutions for one-dimensional two-phase multicomponent flows in porous media describe processes of enhanced oil recovery, environmental flows of waste disposal, and contaminant propagation in subterranean reservoirs and water management in aquifers. …”
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INFLUENCE OF BUSINESS DIGITALIZATION ON THE OIL RECOVERY FACTOR AND IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE OIL AND GAS COMPANIES ACTIVITY by A. D. Balashova, O. I. Bolshakova

“…Against the background of the decline structure of hydrocarbon reserves in Russia, the maintenance of a stable level of production and enhanced oil recovery at mature fields is associated with the introduction of technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). …”
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Optimal Control of Polymer Flooding Based on Maximum Principle by Yang Lei, Shurong Li, Xiaodong Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Lanlei Guo

“…Polymer flooding is one of the most important technologies for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In this paper, an optimal control model of distributed parameter systems (DPSs) for polymer injection strategies is established, which involves the performance index as maximum of the profit, the governing equations as the fluid flow equations of polymer flooding, and the inequality constraint as the polymer concentration limitation. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Treated Flow-Back Water Measurements: An Industrial Insight for a Shale Reservoir by Wei Li, Majid Khayatnezhad, Afshin Davarpanah

“…The treated water is provided from different processes such as hydraulic fracturing, chemical enhanced oil recovery methods (such as polymer, surfactant, and foam flooding that are the main important techniques in recovery processes) from eight wells in Bangestan field in South of Iran. …”
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Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Analysis of the Dynamics of Eyring-Powell Fluid due to Convection Subject to Thermal Stratification and Heat Generation Effect by Solomon Bati Kejela, Emiru Rufo Adula

“…The present study has substantial ramifications in industrial, engineering, and technological applications, for instance, in designing various chemical processing equipment, distribution of temperature and moisture over agricultural fields, groves of fruit trees, environmental pollution, geothermal reservoirs, thermal insulation, enhanced oil recovery, and underground energy transport.…”
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Phase Behavior Analysis of CO2 and Formation Oil System by Lei Tang, Tongyao Zhang, Baogang Li, Lu Zhang, Dong Han

“…The research not only can provide guides for petroleum engineers when they need to adjust the injection and production programs, but also can provide comparatively comprehensive experimental rules for researches on enhanced oil recovery (EOR) mechanisms of gas miscible and nonmiscible flooding. …”
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Experimental evaluation of nanoclay assisted water based EOR method by Hamid Mohammad Soleimani, Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi

“…However, the experimental analysis of nanoclay in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications was rarely investigated. …”
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Conformance Control for Tight Oil Cyclic Gas Injection Using Foam by Falin Wei, Song Zhang, Yilin Xi, Zhouyuan Zhu, Chunming Xiong, Chuanzhen Zang, Junjian Li

“…Cyclic gas injection has been proven to be an effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique for tight oil reservoirs. …”
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Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Pore Size on Spontaneous Imbibition Recovery in Oil-Wet Reservoirs by Ming Yue, Bingbing Li, Qiang Chen, Jidong Gao, Weiyao Zhu, Zhiyong Song

“…Spontaneous imbibition has been considered as a significant method to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in unconventional reservoirs. …”
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Enhanced Wettability Modification and CO2 Solubility Effect by Carbonated Low Salinity Water Injection in Carbonate Reservoirs by Ji Ho Lee, Kun Sang Lee

“…This study demonstrates that CLSWI is a promising water-based hybrid EOR (enhanced oil recovery).…”
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An Experimental and Modeling Study on the Response to Varying Pore Pressure and Reservoir Fluids in the Morrow A Sandstone by Aaron V. Wandler, Thomas L. Davis, Paritosh K. Singh

“…In mature oil fields undergoing enhanced oil recovery methods, such as CO2 injection, monitoring the reservoir changes becomes important. …”
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Chemical Migration and Emulsification of Surfactant-Polymer Flooding by Jierui Li, Weidong Liu, Guangzhi Liao, Linghui Sun, Sunan Cong, Ruixuan Jia

“…With the formation of emulsion, the viscosity of the emulsion is relatively stable, which is beneficial to enhanced oil recovery. With the shear of reservoirs and migration of surfactant-polymer slug, the emulsion is formed to improve the swept volume and sweep efficiency and enhance oil recovery.…”
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A Review on Biosurfactant Applications in the Petroleum Industry by Wei Xi, Yuanye Ping, Masoome Agha Alikhani

“…The inadequacy of worldwide fossil fuel resources, combined with increasing energy demands, encourages global attention to either using alternative energy resources or improving the recovery factor and produce larger quantities from present reservoirs. Among all enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods, surfactant injection is a well-known technique that reduces the interfacial tension (IFT) between oil and water and increases oil production. …”
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Carbon utilization and storage through rehabilitation of groundwater wells by Vivek V. Patil, Gabriella Basso, Steven Catania, Christopher Catania, Timothy Ostapuk, Robert Vince

“…Achieving sequestration of CO $${_2}$$ 2 in the subsurface through Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technologies like CO $${_2}$$ 2 -Enhanced Oil Recovery, CO $${_2}$$ 2 -Enhanced Geothermal Systems, CO $${_2}$$ 2 -Enhanced Coal Bed Methane, etc. is well accepted. …”
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Mechanism of Surfactant Enhancement of CO2 Displacement Recovery in Interlayer Shale Oil Reservoirs by Lanlan Yao, Qihong Lei, Zhengming Yang, Youan He, Haibo Li, Guoxi Zhao, Zigang Zheng, Haitao Hou, Meng Du

“…Aiming at the problem that few studies have been conducted on the combination of multiple media in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), the physical simulation experiment of surfactants + CO2 (SPC) was carried out to analyze the influence of surfactant on the CO2 displacement effect of interlayer shale oil reservoir. …”
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Variation in the Permeability of Intact and Fractured Rocks due to Transient Disturbances in Axial Stress or Pore Pressure by Sophea Boeut, Teppei Oshima, Yoshiaki Fujii, Jun-ichi Kodama, Daisuke Fukuda, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kazumi Uchida, Anjula B. N. Dassanayake

“…A persistent increase in the permeability of rock mass caused by transient stress disturbances, if present, could explain the variation in the groundwater level in far fields, increase in petroleum production caused by earthquakes or artificial vibrations in enhanced oil recovery, and induction of earthquakes by seismic waves in intermediate and far fields. …”
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