A systematic investigation of the relationship between properties of bulk foam and foam in porous media.

Bulk foam analysis (static test) is simple and fast, which makes it a cost-effective method for screening and ranking hundreds of surfactants being considered for foam applications. Coreflood tests (dynamic test) can also be used, but it is quite laborious and costly. However, previous reports show that ranking based on static tests sometimes differs from ranking based on dynamic tests.

Imidazolium based ionic liquid stabilized foams for conformance control: bulk and porous scale investigation.

Foams are typically used as a divergent fluid for conformance control in order to divert the fluid flow from a high-permeable zone into a low-permeable zone. Nevertheless, the stability of the foam still remains a challenge due to the presence of antifoaming crude oil and the harsh environment of the reservoir, such as high-temperature, high-salinity, and high-pressure. In this study, we investigated the stability and efficacy of various surfactant generated foams with ionic liquid (IL) additives.

Wettability Alteration of Carbonate Reservoirs Using Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids.

The wettability of the rock-oil-brine system plays a major role in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), particularly in the harsh environments of carbonate reservoirs. Most of these formations were identified as strongly oil-wet, and sometimes a few are intermediate-wet. Hence, it is highly necessary to alter such an oil-wet rock matrix to a water-wet matrix in order to improve the oil production.