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Muhammad A. Manan

Bio: Muhammad A. Manan is an academic researcher from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enhanced oil recovery & Adsorption. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 40 publications receiving 1034 citations.

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TL;DR: In this article, an up-to-date overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) with detailed explanation of the chemicals used, and the mechanism governing their oil recovery application have been discussed.
Abstract: Despite the progress made on renewable energy, oil and gas remains the world’s primary energy source. Meanwhile, large amounts of oil deposits remain unrecovered after application of traditional oil recovery methods. Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has been adjudged as an efficient oil recovery technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in the reservoir. This EOR method relies on the injection of chemicals to boost oil recovery. In this overview, an up-to-date synopsis of chemical EOR with detailed explanation of the chemicals used, and the mechanism governing their oil recovery application have been discussed. Challenges encountered in the application of the various conventional chemical EOR methods were highlighted, and solutions to overcome the challenges were proffered. Besides, the recent trend of incorporating nanotechnology and their synergistic effects on conventional chemicals stability and efficiency for EOR were also explored and analysed. Finally, laboratory results and field projects were outlined. The review of experimental studies shows that pore-scale mechanisms of conventional chemical EOR is enhanced by incorporating nanotechnology, hence, resulted in higher efficiency. Moreover, the use of ionic liquid chemicals and novel alkaline–cosolvent–polymer technology shows good potentials. This overview presents an extensive information about chemical EOR applications for sustainable energy production.

288 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a comprehensive review on current status of static stability experiments, macroscopic and microscopic scale experimental studies of nanoparticles-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications.

210 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the adsorption of SDS on kaolinite was investigated as a function of surfactant concentration and added electrolyte (NaCl, CaCl2 and AlCl3) concentration.

133 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the recent advances and prospects of the application of polymeric nanofluids in crucial aspects of EOR such as stability and adsorption, wettability alteration, interfacial tension reduction and emulsion stability, and rheology.

122 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of nanoparticles on foam performance at both static and dynamic levels was investigated at the Hele-Shaw cell in order to investigate the foam performance under static or dynamic conditions.

107 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, an up-to-date overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) with detailed explanation of the chemicals used, and the mechanism governing their oil recovery application have been discussed.
Abstract: Despite the progress made on renewable energy, oil and gas remains the world’s primary energy source. Meanwhile, large amounts of oil deposits remain unrecovered after application of traditional oil recovery methods. Chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has been adjudged as an efficient oil recovery technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in the reservoir. This EOR method relies on the injection of chemicals to boost oil recovery. In this overview, an up-to-date synopsis of chemical EOR with detailed explanation of the chemicals used, and the mechanism governing their oil recovery application have been discussed. Challenges encountered in the application of the various conventional chemical EOR methods were highlighted, and solutions to overcome the challenges were proffered. Besides, the recent trend of incorporating nanotechnology and their synergistic effects on conventional chemicals stability and efficiency for EOR were also explored and analysed. Finally, laboratory results and field projects were outlined. The review of experimental studies shows that pore-scale mechanisms of conventional chemical EOR is enhanced by incorporating nanotechnology, hence, resulted in higher efficiency. Moreover, the use of ionic liquid chemicals and novel alkaline–cosolvent–polymer technology shows good potentials. This overview presents an extensive information about chemical EOR applications for sustainable energy production.

288 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the experimental developments in laboratory for possible field applications have been discussed in the upstream oil sector research and the literature review on laboratory works shows that the nanoparticles are effective to recover ∼10% additional oil in core flooding experiment.

252 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a comprehensive review on current status of static stability experiments, macroscopic and microscopic scale experimental studies of nanoparticles-stabilized foam for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications.

210 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on the performance of a chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process was investigated.
Abstract: Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes have a great potential to maximize oil recovery factor of the existing reservoirs, where a significant volume of the unrecovered oil after conventional methods is targeted. Application of chemical EOR techniques includes the process of injecting different types of chemicals into a reservoir to improve the overall sweep efficiency. Surfactant flooding is one of the chemical EOR used to reduce the oil–water interfacial tension and to mobilize residual oil toward producing wells. Throughout the process of surfactant flooding, selecting a suitable surfactant for the reservoir conditions is quite challenging. Surfactants tend to be the major factor associated with the cost of an EOR process, and losing surfactants leads to substantial economic losses. This process could encounter a significant loss of surfactant due to adsorption into the porous media. Surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH were found to be as the main factors that influence the surfactant adsorption on reservoir rocks. Most of the research has been conducted in low-temperature and low-salinity conditions. Only limited studies were conducted in high-temperature and high-salinity (HT/HS) conditions due to the challenging for implementation of surfactant flooding in these conditions. This paper, therefore, focuses on the reviews of the studies conducted on surfactant adsorption for different surfactant types on different reservoir rocks under different reservoir conditions, and the influence of surfactant concentration, salinity, temperature, and pH on surfactant adsorption.

205 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the role of surfactants in oil recovery, surfactant adsorption onto reservoir rock, and the application of polysilicon in EOR on both laboratory and field scales is discussed.

177 citations