the immiscible displacement of oil by water through a porous and permeable reservoir rock can be described by the use of a fractional flow curves (fw versus sw). water flooding project parameters can be obtained from the fractional flow curve. however, developing a representative fractional flow curve for a specific reservoir can be quite challenging when fluid and special core analysis data is...

Oil recovery by waterflooding in fractured formations is often dependent on spontaneous imbibition. However, spontaneous imbibition is often insignificant in oil-wet, carbonate rocks. Sodium carbonate and anionic surfactant solutions are evaluated for enhancing oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition from oil-wet carbonate rocks. Crude-oil samples must be free of surface-active contaminants to b...

We investigate quantitatively the effect of inclined and intersecting discontinuous shales on horizontal waterfloods, using generic, dimensionless twoand three-dimensional models. We focus upon whether the shales alter the sweep efficiency. We find that they have a significant effect only if they are continuous over large areas of the bedding surfaces and are steeply inclined to the flow, or if...

Many laboratory and field scale trials have shown that modified salinity water flooding increases the mobility of oil improves recovery. However, simulation process guided by core data leads to inaccurate prediction recovery if effect saturation history reservoir on relative permeability is ignored. Here, we address this problem proposing three models illustrating interplay among wettability al...