Surface Phenomena in Enhanced Oil Recovery

Abstract

I: Fundamental Aspects of the Oil Displacement Process.- Research on Enhanced Oil Recovery: Past, Present and Future.- The Physico-Chemical Conditions Necessary to Produce Ultralow Interfacial Tension at the Oil/Brine Interface.- Further Studies on Phase Relationships in Chemical Flooding.- Selection of Components for an Optimal Micellar System in Reservoir Conditions.- The Effect of Salt, Alcohol and Surfactant on Optimum Middle Phase Composition.- II: Microstructure of Surfactant Systems.- Formation and Properties of Micelles and Microemulsions.- X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering by Microemulsions.- Light Scattering Study of Adsorption of Surfactant Molecules at Oil-Water Interface.- An Experimental Investigation of Stability of Microemulsions and Polydispersity Effects Using Light-Scattering Spectroscopy and Small Angle X-Ray Scattering.- Dielectric and Conductive Properties of Water-in-Oil Type Microemulsions.- Measurement of Low Interfacial Tension Between Crude Oil and Formation Water with Dissolved Surfactants by the Spinning Drop Technique: Fact or Fiction?.- III: Emulsion Rheology and Oil Displacement Mechanisms.- The Effect of Film-Forming Materials on the Dynamic Interfacial Properties in Crude Oil-Aqueous Systems.- Recovery Mechanisms of Alkaline Flooding.- The Role of Alkaline Chemicals in Oil Displacement Mechanisms.- Interfacial Rheological Properties of Crude Oil/Water Systems.- Porous Media Rheology of Emulsions in Tertiary Oil Recovery.- Rheological Properties of Interfacial Layers Formed by Iron and Aluminum Soaps, Used in Reversible Emulsions in Petroleum Industry.- IV: Wettability and Oil Displacement Mechanisms.- Effect of Viscous and Buoyancy Forces on Nonwetting Phase Trapping in Porous Media.- Dependence of Residual Oil Mobilization on Wetting and Roughness.- Experimental Investigation of Two-Liquid Relative Permeability and Dye Adsorption Capacity Versus Saturation Relationships in Untreated and Dri-Film-Treated Sandstone Samples.- Wettability of, and Oil Film Stability on Glass Capillaries as Basic Processes in Tertiary Oil Recovery.- The Influence of Interfacial Properties on Immiscible Displacement Behavior.- Effect of Alcohols on the Equilibrium Properties and Dynamics of Micellar Solutions.- The Effect of Alcohol on Surfactant Mass Transfer Across the Oil/Brine Interface and Related Phenomena.- Complex Acids and Their Interaction with Clays in Oil Sands Slimes.- On the Coalescence Characteristics of Low Tension Oil-Water-Surfactant Systems.- Thin Films and Fluid Distribution in Porous Media.- On the Fate of Oil Ganglia During Immiscible Displacement in Water Wet Granular Porous Media.- V: Adsorption, Clays and Chemical Loss Mechanisms.- Precipitation and Redissolution of Sulfonates and Their Role in Adsorption on Minerals.- The Effect of Microemulsion Composition on the Adsorption of Petroleum Sulfonates on Berea Sand/Montmorillonite Clay Adsorbents.- Adsorption of Pure Surfactant and Petroleum Sulfonate at the Solid-Liquid Interface.- Ion Exchange on Mixed Ionic Forms of Montmorillonite at High Ionic Strengths.- Permeability Reduction in Water Sensitivity of Sandstones.- VI: Polymer Rheology and Surfactant-Polymer Interactions.- Synthetic Random and Graft Copolymers for Utilization in Enhanced Oil Recovery-Synthesis and Rheology.- Response of Mobility Control Agents to Shear, Electrochemical, and Biological Stress.- Factors Influencing Polyacrylamide Adsorption in Porous Media and Their Effect on Flow Behavior.- Optimal Salinity of Polymer Solution in Surfactant-Polymer Flooding Process.- Polymer-Surfactant Interaction and Its Effect on the Mobilization of Capillary-Trapped Oil.