Wettability alteration of oil-wet carbonate by silica nanofluid

Changing oil-wet surfaces toward higher water wettability is of key importance in subsurface engineering applications. This includes petroleum recovery from fractured limestone reservoirs, which are typically mixed or oil-wet, resulting in poor productivity as conventional waterflooding techniques a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Al-Anssari, S., Barifcani, A., Wang, Shaobin, Maxim, L., Iglauer, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13223