Investigating the Use of Nanoparticles in Enhancing Oil Recovery

By M. Onyekonwu, N. Ogolo. 2010

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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In Mechanical Engineering

1. Saeedi Ali
2. Q. Xie
3. E. Joonaki
4. S. Ghanaatian
5. C. Negin

In Ocean Engineering

1. A. Barifcani
2. Maxim Lebedev
3. S. Iglauer
4. M. Al-Hamad
5. Saeedi Ali
6. Umer Mehmood
7. M. Kamal
8. A. Sultan

Citations in the corpus

• An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery: recent advances and prospects (2019, unknown): “Meanwhile, NWPN alters the wettability of the rock surface to a neutral state because of the presence of hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties [115].”
• Emergence of nanotechnology in the oil and gas industry: Emphasis on the application of silica nanoparticles (2017, background): “known tomake awater-wet rock oil-wet or increase the degree of wettability of an already oil-wet rock [95].”
• Effect of temperature and SiO2 nanoparticle size on wettability alteration of oil-wet calcite (2017, background): “Alteration of oil-wet carbonate surfaces to water-wet is thus a key mechanism, which can significantly increase oil production [23, 27, 38-43].”
• The Application of Nanofluids for Enhanced Oil Recovery: Effects on Interfacial Tension and Coreflooding Process (2014, background): “The use of nanoparticles to alter rock wettability and its following effect on oil recovery has been published by several authors (Bishan et al., 2005; Ju and Fan, 2009; Onyekonwu and Ogolo, 2010) .”
• Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil Recovery, and Wettability Alteration (2017, background): “In addition, they can strengthen the wettability of water-wet rock to more water-wet rock [50].”
• Application of nanotechnology for enhancing oil recovery – A review (2016, background): “Other researchers [41] showed that the application of untreated LHPN in water-wet formations is not recommended since it alters the wettability of the water-wet rocks to strongly water-wet and hence could result in a poor recovery factor.”