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Combining Particles with Surfactants to Improve Microscopic Displacement and Sweep Efficiency

Authors : Mustafa Almahfood, Baojun Bai

Published in: Surfactants in Upstream E&P

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Surfactants and gel treatments are two major types of chemicals that have gained a great deal of attention in the oil industry due to their oil recovery enhancement and water shutoff improvement. The surfactants are mainly used to improve the microscopic displacement efficiency or change the rock wettability from oil wet to oil wet for oil recovery improvement, while gel treatments are often used to significantly reduce the fluid flow through channels or fracture and thus improve water flooding efficiency. The combination of these two methods have a great potential to significantly improve oil recovery in both micro- and macro-scope. This chapter first reviews the fundamentals of surfactants, conventional nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and preformed gel particles that are often used in EOR applications. Then, it describes how the combination of surfactants with these particles can be used to significantly enhance oil recovery in terms of their mechanisms and laboratory experimental results.

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Title: Combining Particles with Surfactants to Improve Microscopic Displacement and Sweep Efficiency
Authors: Mustafa Almahfood
Baojun Bai
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Surfactants in Upstream E&P
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-70025-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-70026-3

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70026-3_9