Enhanced oil recovery by flooding with hydrophilic nanoparticles

Ju, Binshan; Tang, Fan; Ma, Mingxue

doi:10.1016/s1672-2515(07)60232-2

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“…These investigations promote polymeric nanospheres suspension as a potential displacement fluid in EOR. Further study is required, for instance, stability tests, repeat coreflood testing by increasing nanospheres concentration, and [48] various parameter effects to EOR process such as initial wettability of rock, temperature, different salinity and salt compositions [47].…”

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confidence: 99%

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

2015

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Chemical 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.

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Section: Floodingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2015

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“…In the past decade, most investigations have shown that nanoparticles (NPs) offer promise for future EOR processes where silica-based NPs have been most commonly used [9][10][11][12][13]. Although the oil displacement mechanism via NPs is not yet clearly understood [14][15][16], the nanotechnology is now chosen as an alternative method to unlock the remaining oil resources and applied as a new EOR method in last decade [10][11][12][17][18][19][20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although the oil displacement mechanism via NPs is not yet clearly understood [14][15][16], the nanotechnology is now chosen as an alternative method to unlock the remaining oil resources and applied as a new EOR method in last decade [10][11][12][17][18][19][20]. polymeric microspheres and nanospheres have been applied as water mobility control both as a pilot and full-field, and showed fantastic results in reducing water cut, increasing sweep efficiency and improving oil recovery [21][22][23].…”

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A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part A: effects of nanoparticles on interfacial tension

2016

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Chemical enhanced oil recovery is another strong growing technology with the potential of a step change innovation, which will help to secure future oil supply by turning resources into reserves. While Substantial amount of crude oil remains in the reservoir after primary and secondary production, conventional production methods give access to on average only one-third of original oil in place, the use of surfactants and polymers allows for recovery of up to another third of this oil. Chemical 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. Nanotechnology has the potential to profoundly change enhanced oil recovery and to improve mechanism of recovery. This paper, therefore, focuses on the reviews of the application of nano technology in chemical flooding process in oil recovery and reviews the application nano in the polymer and surfactant flooding on the interfacial tension process.

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“…Numerous experimental works have been published discussing the role of chemical agents in wettability alteration of porous media Strand et al 2003;Standnes and Austad 2003;Hognesen et al 2004;Mohan et al 2011;Ravari et al 2011;Tabrizy et al 2011). However, the role of Nanoparticles in this field is still in its infancy and consequently has attracted the attention of many researchersin last decade due to their specific characteristics (Ju et al 2002(Ju et al , 2006Shen and Resasco 2009;Zhang et al 2010;Suleimanov et al 2011). Silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ) Nanoparticles are very promising materials and can be used in the near future for enhanced oil recovery.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These Nanoparticles have a great potential for increasing pore scale displacement efficiency (Ju and Fan 2009;Onyekonwu and Ologo 2010). Application of these Nanoparticles for enhancing oil recovery in water-wet sandstone systems is well documented in the literature (Ju et al 2002(Ju et al , 2006Ju and Fan 2009;Onyekonwu and Ologo 2010;Wang et al 2010). However, from the view of the literature in this field, only few papers address the application of these Nanoparticles in wettability alteration of carbonate systems (Maghzi et al 2011).…”

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Experimental investigation of SiO2 nanoparticles on enhanced oil recovery of carbonate reservoirs

Roustaei¹,

Bagherzadeh²

2014

J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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Wettability alteration is an important method to increase oil recovery from oil-wet carbonate reservoirs. Chemical agents are used as wettability modifiers in carbonate systems; however, the role of Nanoparticles in this field is still in its infancy and consequently has attracted the attention of many researchers in the last decade. In this work, the impact of SiO 2 Nanoparticles on the wettability of a carbonate reservoir rock was experimentally studied. The impact of these Nanoparticles on the wettability of carbonate systems is still in its infancy. For this purpose, the effect of Nanofluid's concentration on wettability and interfacial tension were investigated to determine the optimum concentration of Nanofluid for injection into core samples. The result suggests that a concentration of 4 g/L of Nanofluid could significantly alter the wettability of the rock from a strongly oil-wet to a strongly water-wet condition. Moreover, we studied the Nanofluids' potential in enhanced oil recovery of oil-wet core plugs. The results show that a considerable amount of oil can be recovered right after start of water injection to the aged core plug with Nano fluid.

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Enhanced oil recovery by flooding with hydrophilic nanoparticles

Cited by 270 publications

References 9 publications

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

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

A review on applications of nanotechnology in the enhanced oil recovery part A: effects of nanoparticles on interfacial tension

Experimental investigation of SiO2 nanoparticles on enhanced oil recovery of carbonate reservoirs

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