Modelling Mineral-Scaling in Geothermal Reservoirs Using Both a Local Equilibrium and a Kinetics Approach

Impact of Crude Oil on Pre-Generated Foam in Porous Media

As foam is injected into an oil reservoir, the region near an injector can become oil-free due to the relatively high capillary number. Foam created in this region encounters oil further out in the reservoir. The impact of oil on foam in porous media is usually investigated by co-injecting surfactant, gas and oil, or by injecting pre...

Studies on foam in porous media and the effect of oil

Foam flooding can be applied in soil-remediation techniques or for improving oil recovery processes in petroleum reservoirs. There are models which aim to predict the behaviour of foam in presence of oil in bulk and in porous media, however these models are not very reliable. In this work we investigate different ways in which a specific crude...

Impact of Crude Oil on Pre-generated Foam in Porous Media

As foam is injected into an oil reservoir, the region near an injector can become oil-free due to the relatively high capillary number. Foam created in this region encounters oil further out in the reservoir. The impact of oil on foam in porous media is usually investigated by co-injecting surfactant, gas and oil, or by injecting pre-generated...

The impacts of solubilized and dispersed crude oil on foam in a porous medium

Dispersed and solubilized oil can impact bulk foam stability differently. Though aromatic components are more soluble in water than straight-chain aliphatic components, solubilized aromatics do not necessarily impact the stability of foam in bulk or porous media, whereas straight-chain aliphatic components can have a detrimental impact (Bergeron...

Impact of Different Oil Mixtures on Foam in Porous Media and in Bulk

Foam can be applied to enhance oil recovery from a reservoir. Currently, to understand and model the behavior of foam in an oil reservoir, experiments need to be conducted in the presence of the specific crude oil, and extrapolating from one crude oil to another is not possible. It is therefore desirable to model the impact of a crude oil on...

Impact of Solubilized and Dispersed Crude Oil on Foam in a Porous Medium

Dispersed and solubilized oil can impact bulk foam stability differently. Though aromatic components are more soluble in water than straight-chain aliphatic components, solubilized aromatics do not necessarily impact bulk foam stability, whereas straight-chain aliphatic components can have a detrimental impact (Lee et al., “Stability of Aqueous...

Impact of surfactant depletion on foam in porous media

Impact of surfactant depletion on foam in porous media

Foam can be applied as an Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) process. Foam stability in porous mediadecreases with decreasing surfactant concentration. It is also known that foam collapses belowa “limiting water saturation” in porous media. However, there isn’t a complete theory for the relationship between surfactant concentration and the water...

Effect of Oil on Gravity Segregation in SAG Foam Flooding

We report a simulation study of surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) foam injection into a waterflooded oil reservoir. We show the effects of oil, and of SAG cycle size and number on sweep efficiency, and the longterm impact of a single surfactant slug on the areal sweep efficiency of a gas-flood. Shan and Rossen (2004) show that a single-cycle SAG...