The influence of pore wettability on the microstructure of residual oil in surfactant-enhanced water flooding in heavy oil reservoirs: Implications for pore-scale flow characterization
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In: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 77, No. 1, 04.2011, p. 121-134.
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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
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953101869&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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 -