A large quantity of world’s oil reserves exists in carbonate reservoirs. Carbonate reservoirs are very sensitive to chemical enhanced oil recovery process because of containing large amount of calcite, dolomite and calcium sulfate minerals. These minerals cause major obstacles during alkali-surfactant-polymer (ASP) flooding. Alkali reacts with these minerals and form undesired precipitations wh...

Wettability alteration is an important method for increasing oil recovery from oil-wet carbonate reservoirs. Chemical agents like surfactants are known as wettability modifiers in carbonate systems. Oil can be recovered from initially oil-wet carbonate reservoirs by wettability alteration from oil-wet to water-wet condition with adding dilute surfactant and electrolyte solutions. This paper inv...

Rock typing is known as the best way in heterogeneous reservoirs characterization. The rock typing methods confine to various aspects of the rocks such as multi-scale and multi-modal pore types and size, rock texture, diagenetic modifications and integration of static/dynamic data. Integration of static and dynamic behavior of rocks and their sedimentary features are practiced in this study. Po...

The present study focuses on facies analysis and the reservoir characteristics of the Asmari Formation in the Aghajari oilfield (located in the Zagros fold-thrust belt, southwest Iran), and how they are linked to depositional environments and reservoir characteristics. This formation consists of about 380 m carbonates with some siliciclastic intercalations. Based on the integration of 1200 m of...

Fault-controlled mixed siliciclastic-carbonate-evaporite depositional systems exhibit distinct sensitivity to tectonic and eustatic controls that are expressed in the sedimentary architecture. In Upper Carboniferous Billefjorden Trough (Svalbard, Norway), up 2,000 m of a warm arid climate syn-rift basin fill comprises such systems, documented this study with traditional field techniques support...

the aitamir formation (albian- cenomanian) in the kopet- dagh basin consists of fine to medium grained sandstone, siltstone, shale and limestone. its lower contact with the sanganeh formation is gradual and its upper contact with the abderaz formation is unconformable. field and petrographic studies of the aitamir formation in artenj and ghorghoreh sections, located in bazangan area- east of ko...

With the still huge dependence on crude oil, it is crucial to develop enhanced oil recovery techniques improve reservoir production and lifespan. Carbonate reservoirs constitute over half world's reserves, but they are challenging in terms of due their complex pore network, oil-wet or mixed-wet rocks, harsh conditions temperature salinity. This work offers a significant contribution exploitatio...

A well-preserved Cambrian section in the Zanskar Valley of northern India has previously been interpreted to record the transition from a passive to an active tectonic margin related to Cambrian–Ordovician orogenesis. This interpretation has been used to support the tectonostratigraphic interpretation of other successions across the Tethyan Himalaya. Our detailed paleoenvironmental analysis sig...