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dc.contributor.authorKhaledialidusti, Rasoul
dc.contributor.authorKleppe, Jon
dc.contributor.authorEnayatpour, Saeid
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-02T13:22:48Z
dc.date.available2018-05-02T13:22:48Z
dc.date.created2016-12-15T12:56:02Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology. 2017, 7 (3), 853-872.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn2190-0558
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2496802
dc.description.abstractSurfactant flooding is an important enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method, especially in carbonate oil reservoirs where water flooding may not have an effect on oil recovery as much as for sandstone reservoirs. This is because of the initial wettability of most carbonate reservoirs that is mixed- or oil-wet. Since surfactant flooding has a great impact on both fluid–fluid and rock–fluid interactions, it can be an efficient EOR method for these kinds of reservoirs. Surfactants affect fluid–fluid interactions by reducing interfacial tension (IFT) between water and oil phases and rock–fluid interactions by wettability alteration. The objective of this paper is the evaluation of these two surfactant mechanisms in non-fractured carbonate reservoirs using UTCHEM, the University of Texas chemical compositional simulator. In this paper, first, the laboratory data of two surfactant spontaneous imbibition tests for carbonate cores are successfully matched with modeled data to evaluate the mechanisms of surfactant flooding. Second, the field-scale surfactant flooding is simulated using the experimental data from spontaneous imbibition tests. Several cases are modeled in order to study the effect of surfactant flooding in terms of decreasing IFT and wettability alteration. Since the formation brine salinity in most reservoirs is more than the optimum salinity of surfactant phase behavior, the benefit of combining surfactant and low-salinity water is also investigated. Finally, tracer test simulation is performed to estimate the average oil saturation within the swept pore volume at the end of each recovery mode.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherSpringerOpennb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleEvaluation of surfactant flooding using interwell tracer analysisnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber853-872nb_NO
dc.source.volume7nb_NO
dc.source.journalJournal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technologynb_NO
dc.source.issue3nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s13202-016-0288-9
dc.identifier.cristin1413350
dc.description.localcode© The Author(s) 2016. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).nb_NO
cristin.unitcode194,64,90,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for geovitenskap og petroleum
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