The low salinity waterflooding can increase oil recovery by 5%-20% in sandstones, which has attracted more and attention. However, the mechanism of is not clear. In this paper, effect cation replacement on interaction between silica investigated via molecular dynamics simulation to reveal waterflooding. results show that stable adsorption droplets surface mainly due strong rock caused cations. ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Low-salinity Waterflood LSW Brine Double-layer Sandstone Carbonate Film Low-salinity waterflooding is a relatively new method for improved oil recovery that has generated much interest. It is generally believed that low-salinity brine alters the wettability of oil reservoir rocks towards a wetting state that is optimal for recovery. The mechanism(s) by which the ...

in this paper, the effect of flow rate on relative permeability curves was investigated in iranian carbonate rocks. core samples were prepared from outcrop of asmari formation. the dynamic displacement experiments were performed at 2.55, 3.55, 4.55 and 5.55 cc/hr during waterflooding and oilflooding. relative permeabilities have been calculated with the jones and roszelle method and then the fl...

Low salinity waterflooding (LSW) has shown promising results in terms of increasing oil recovery at laboratory scale. In this work, we study the LSW effect, scale, and provide a basis for quantifying effect field scale by extracting reliable relative permeability curves. These were achieved experimental numerical interpretation core studies. Carbonate rock samples used to conduct secondary tert...

Blocking the already swept high permeable zone with a biodegradable polymer gel is expected to be a more effective and innovative sweep efficiency improvement (SEI) method. This is because it has no risk of formation damage, and it is expected to show additional oil recovery if the microbes have a MEOR effect. In this study, in order to confirm the effect of this blocking on the SEI, a waterflo...