A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part B: effects of nanoparticles on flooding

By G. Cheraghian, L. Hendraningrat. International Nano Letters, 2016

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AbstractChemical flooding is of increasing interest and importance due to high oil prices and the need to increase oil production. Research in nanotechnology in the petroleum industry is advancing rapidly, and an enormous progress in the application of nanotechnology in this area is to be expected. The nanotechnology has been widely used in several other industries, and the interest in the oil industry is increasing. Nanotechnology has the potential to profoundly change enhanced oil recovery and to improve mechanism of recovery, and it is chosen as an alternative method to unlock the remaining oil resources and applied as a new enhanced oil recovery method in last decade. This paper therefore focuses on the reviews of the application of nanotechnology in chemical flooding process in oil recovery and reviews the applications of nanomaterials for improving oil recovery that have been proposed to explain oil displacement by polymer flooding within oil reservoirs, and also this paper highlights the research advances of polymer in oil recovery. Nanochemical flooding is an immature method from an application point of view.

Subfields: Analytical Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Ocean Engineering

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In Analytical Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil Recovery, and Wettability Alteration (2017, background): “Cheraghian and Hendraningrat focused only on the effect of NPs on the flooding experiments [64].”
• The effect of nanoparticles on reservoir wettability alteration: a critical review (2020, background): “Hence, nanoparticles can play a vital role in recovering more trapped oil by a decrease in the capillary force (Cheraghian and Hendraningrat 2016a, b).”