“Smart Water” as a Wettability Modifier in Chalk: The Effect of Salinity

26 Mar 2010 - At 110 and 120 °C, the oil recovery from seawater depleted in NaCl increased by about 10% of original oil in ... Citation data is made available by participants in Crossref's Cited-by Linking service. .... Effect of Water Salinity and

Aug 12, 2009 - Thus, injection of “smart water” with a correct composition and salinity can act as a tertiary recovery method. Economically, it is, however, ...

Sep 6, 2006 - It was previously documented that seawater was able to change the wettability of oil-saturated chalk toward more water-wet conditions and that ...

Aug 9, 2016 - Ahmed Farid Ibrahim and Hisham A. Nasr-El-Din ... This paper presents an investigation of the effect of the formation water salinity on the ...

Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States. Energy Fuels , 2016, 30 (9), pp 7532–7542. DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b01205. Publication Date (Web): August 9, 2016. Copyright

Aug 9, 2016 - formation water salinity on the wettability behavior of highly volatile bitumen coal. The captive bubble method was used to measure the contact ...

Oct 7, 2011 - To this end, a model silicate substrate, namely glass, was treated by oil ... For a more comprehensive list of citations to this article, users are ... Effect of injection brine composition on wettability and oil recovery in sandstone r

... Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, ... Mixed-wet models of rock pore networks have been constructed to describe ... glass slides (Knittel Gläser) were precleaned with ethanol, water, and a radio ...

Oct 7, 2011 - Effect of Water Salinity and pH on the Wettability of a Model Substrate. Andrew ..... flooded samples can be fitted to a power law: 1 А θA/180 ¼ ...

Oct 7, 2011 - recovery by low salinity flooding. 'INTRODUCTION. Oil recovery by waterflooding of a reservoir is greatly influ- enced by the wettability,1 that is, ...