SURFACE MODIFIED NANOPARTICLES FOR EOR APPLICATIONS

These days, due to the high demand of crude oil and the depletion of it, many oil
companies have started to explore more ways to recover the original oil in place (OOIP)
as much as possible. Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is being known as a tertiary
recovery method which is being applied after primary and secondary methods take
placed. EOR is being massively studied and applied in the oil industry. There are
mainly three types of EOR which are gas EOR, water-based EOR and thermal EOR.
Due to oil’s nature in being highly vicious, it is difficult to use flooding methods, for
instance water alternating gas or foam water alternating gas.