TY - JOUR

T1 - The influence of pore wettability on the microstructure of residual oil in surfactant-enhanced water flooding in heavy oil reservoirs

T2 - Implications for pore-scale flow characterization

AU - Yadali Jamaloei, Benyamin

AU - Kharrat, Riyaz

AU - Asghari, Koorosh

AU - Torabi, Farshid

N1 - Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the support provided by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre , Regina, Canada. Also, the first author thanks the Petroleum Research Center at the Petroleum University of Technology, Tehran, for providing the laboratory facilities and the Research and Development Directorate of the National Iranian Oil Company for the financial support in conducting the experimental part of this research. We are also indebted to anonymous reviewers and editor whose critical comments helped in enhancing the clarity of the results. With kind permission from Springer Science + Business Media: < Transport in Porous Media, Analysis of microscopic displacement mechanisms of dilute surfactant flooding in oil-wet and water-wet porous media, 81, 1, 2010, 1–19, Benyamin Yadali Jamaloei and Riyaz Kharrat, Figs. 5 and 8 .

PY - 2011/4

Y1 - 2011/4

KW - Blob population statistics

KW - Blob size

KW - Heavy oil recovery

KW - Micromodel

KW - Mobilization capillary number

KW - Pore-scale Weber number

KW - Surfactant waterflooding

KW - Wettability

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U2 - 10.1016/j.petrol.2011.02.013

DO - 10.1016/j.petrol.2011.02.013

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:79953101869

VL - 77

SP - 121

EP - 134

JO - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

JF - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

SN - 0920-4105

IS - 1

ER -