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Polymer flooding is a well-established chemical EOR technique. However, its application in high temperature and high salinity carbonate reservoirs is still a challenging task due to the unavailability of polymers which can withstand these reservoir conditions. Candidate polymers…

Ion-engineered or smart waterflooding is a recent buzzword among the EOR technologies due to the promising laboratory results and a few positive pilot results reported from different parts of the world. In most cases multivalent anions (SO4 2-, PO4 3- etc.) are mixed with inject…

Over several decades of water flooding development, quite a few Minnelusa reservoirs are getting close to the economic limit of the secondary recovery. High heterogeneity, the typical characteristic of the Minnelusa reservoirs plus complex salinity distribution is challenging th…