Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and Improved Oil Recovery (IOR)

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit manuscripts to a Special Issue of the journal Energies on the topic of “Advanced technologies for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and improved oil recovery (IOR)”.

With the long-time development of oil fields, a lot of reservoirs have been coming into their mature stage. How to reverse the decline of mature fields and increase the overall oil recovery is a challenging issue facing the oil field operators all over the world. Simultaneously, a lot of new reserves are found in hard-to-recover reservoirs, such as heavy and extra-heavy oil, shale oil, oil shale, tight oil reservoir. The development of these hard-to-recover reserves requires more efficient EOR/IOR methods.

In this special issue, we are going to publish a special edition devoted to related topics in EOR/IOR area, in particular, development of chemical agents as well as their roles and efficiency in EOR/IOR process; interaction between different phases in water/chemical solution/oil/rock systemand multiphase flow in porous media evaluated by filtration experiments as well as modeling and simulation; mechanism of EOR/IOR; injection-water chemistry; oilfield chemistry; and new technologies and research advancement for intensifying oil and gas production. We welcome original research articles (both empirical and theoretical) and review articles.

Dr. Lyubov A. Magadova
Dr. Mikhail A. Varfolomeev
Dr. Chengdong Yuan
Dr. Fayang Jin
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.