Emerging Nanotechnologies and Solutions in Enhanced Oil Recovery

Masoud Riazi is currently Dean and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at Shiraz University in Iran. He is also Director of EOR/IOR Research at Shiraz University. Previously, he was a Senior Consultant at Petroc Technologies in Edinburgh running high pressure CO2 injection, trapping, and storage experiments. He earned a PhD in petroleum engineering from Heriot-Watt University, a MSc in chemical engineering from Tehran University, and a BSc in petroleum engineering from Petroleum University of Technology along with over 20 patents. Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh is currently an assistant professor at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. He is also an adjunct professor at Jilin University and Northeast Petroleum University in China. He was previously a visiting scholar at the University of Calgary. He earned a PhD in petroleum engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, an MSc in hydrocarbon reservoir engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, and a BSc in petroleum engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery processes, heavy oil systems, nanotechnology, and applications of intelligent models in the petroleum industry. Abdolhossein has been awarded as a distinguished graduate MSc student, was an honor PhD student, and a recipient of the National Elites Foundation Scholarship. He works as an associate professor in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. He has published over 150 journal articles, three books, several conference proceedings, and earned one patent in 2016. Zhaomin Li is currently a professor and vice president of China University of Petroleum (East China). His research interests are in oil production engineering theory and technology, application of foam fluids in oil and gas development, and heavy oil. He is also an executive director of the Shandong Petroleum Institute in foam fluids and vice chairman of the Shandong Ocean Development Research Association. He has won many awards and received funding for more than 50 national scientific research projects. He has obtained 68 invention patents, including 7 US patents. He earned a PhD from the China University of Petroleum (Beijing), an MS from Shandong University, and a BS from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Maen Husein is currently a professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering in chemical engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, an MSc and PhD, both in chemical engineering from McGill University. Dr. Husein was a visiting professor at China University of Petroleum, East (2019–22). He is a member of the APEGA and has earned several awards and nearly 30 funding research opportunities. Farid Cortés is currently Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Colombia. He earned a MSc and PhD, both in chemical engineering from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and is one of the youngest professors to receive a full professorship in the faculty. He has published more than 135 peer review papers, 5 books, and more than 5 patents. He has won several awards and is the leader on about 70 different projects in development and innovation and was one of the first to research enhanced oil recovery involving nanotechnology.

1. Introduction to Nanotechnology for Enhancing Oil Recovery
2. Nano-Assisted Chemical EOR Methods
3. Nano-Assisted Thermal EOR Methods
4. Other Nano-Assisted Water and Gas-Based EOR Methods
5. Nanoencapsulation Technology for Enhancing Oil Recovery
6. Introduction to foam flooding techniques
7. Nanoparticle-stabilized foam
8. Flow behavior of nanoparticle-armored bubbles
9. Nanoparticle-stabilized foam for mobility control
10. EOR of low-permeability cores
11. Ionic Liquids Application for Enhancing Oil Recovery
12. Microbial Biotechnology for Enhancing Oil Recovery
13. Electrical EOR techniques
14. Formation damage potential in novel enhanced oil recovery technologies
15. Mathematical Modelling and simulations studies
16. Application of molecular dynamic simulation for enhancing oil recovery
17. Environmental issues during enhanced oil recovery
18. Role of enhanced oil recovery technologies on energy transition