Rock-Fluid Interaction During Low-Salinity Polymer Flow in Porous Media

Usually, oil fields are developed over three stages. First is the primary oil recovery, where the natural underground pressure is used to drive the oil to the surface. Afterwards is the secondary oil recovery, usually by water flooding or gas injection. However, the water flood yields lower sweep efficiency in heterogeneous reservoirs, contrary...

Extensional viscosity aspects of HPAM in porous flow: An experimental and numerical study

Polymer flooding is the most widely used chemical EOR method. Despite being widely used, the apparent shear-thickening behaviour of the polymer solutions in porous flow at high flow rates is poorly understood. One of the supposed mechanisms is the strain-thickening behaviour of polymer solutions. This fluid property will alter the flow dynamics...