Monitoring wettability alteration by silica nanoparticles during water flooding to heavy oils in five-spot systems: A pore-level investigation

By A. Maghzi, S. Mohammadi, M. Ghazanfari, R. Kharrat, M. Masihi. 2012

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Application of Nanoparticles in Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Critical Review of Recent Progress (2017, methodology): “[45] conducted an experiment to study the change of contact angles when the glass surfaces coated by a SiO2 nanofluid and heavy oil with different viscosity and found that the SiO2 NPs also caused wettability alteration from oil-wet to water-wet regardless the viscosity of measured oil.”
Advanced nanomaterials in oil and gas industry: Design, application and challenges (2017, background): “For example, Maghzi and co-workers investigated the ability of silica nanoparticles in wettability alteration process and found that nanosilica was able to significantly improve the sweep efficiency during water flooding [351].”
Recent Advances in Nanoparticles Enhanced Oil Recovery: Rheology, Interfacial Tension, Oil Recovery, and Wettability Alteration (2017, methodology): “Only a few publications reported the porescale investigation of wettability alteration and need further investigation [39].”
Nanoparticle technology for heavy oil in-situ upgrading and recovery enhancement: Opportunities and challenges (2014, background): “First, the production of lighter components via catalytic hydrocracking of heavy oil in presence of hydrogen and heat source [62,97–99], and second is wettability alteration of medium surface by coating with nanoparticles [100,101].”