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Best Publications

  • Smart Water as Wettability Modifier in Carbonate and Sandstone: A Discussion of Similarities/Differences in the Chemical Mechanisms

    A. RezaeiDoust;T. Puntervold;S. Strand;T. Austad

  • Wettability alteration of carbonates—Effects of potential determining ions (Ca2+ and SO42−) and temperature

    Skule Strand;Eli J. Høgnesen;Tor Austad

  • Conditions for a Low-Salinity Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Effect in Carbonate Oil Reservoirs

    T. Austad;S. F. Shariatpanahi;S. Strand;C. J. J. Black

  • “Smart water” as a wettability modifier in chalk: The effect of salinity and ionic composition

    Seyed Jafar Fathi;Tor Austad;Skule Strand

  • Water-Based Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) by “Smart Water”: Optimal Ionic Composition for EOR in Carbonates

    Seyed Jafar Fathi;Tor Austad;Skule Strand

  • “Smart Water” for Oil Recovery from Fractured Limestone: A Preliminary Study

    Skule Strand;Tor Austad;Tina Puntervold;Eli J. Høgnesen

  • Spontaneous Imbibition of Aqueous Surfactant Solutions into Neutral to Oil-Wet Carbonate Cores: Effects of Brine Salinity and Composition

    Skule Strand;Dag C. Standnes;Tor Austad

  • Seawater in Chalk: An EOR and Compaction Fluid

    Tor Austad;Skule Strand;Merete V. Madland;Tina Puntervold

  • Waterflooding of preferential oil-wet carbonates: Oil recovery related to reservoir temperature and brine composition

    Eli Jens Hognesen;Skule Strand;Tor Austad

  • New wettability test for chalk based on chromatographic separation of SCN− and SO42−

    S. Strand;D.C. Standnes;T. Austad

  • Evaluation of Low-Salinity Enhanced Oil Recovery Effects in Sandstone: Effects of the Temperature and pH Gradient

    Hakan Aksulu;Dagny Håmsø;Skule Strand;Tina Puntervold

  • Seawater as IOR Fluid in Fractured Chalk

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  • Water Flooding of Carbonate Reservoirs: Effects of a Model Base and Natural Crude Oil Bases on Chalk Wettability

    Tina Puntervold;Skule Strand;Tor Austad

  • Effect of Temperature on Enhanced Oil Recovery from Mixed-Wet Chalk Cores by Spontaneous Imbibition and Forced Displacement Using Seawater

    Skule Strand;Tina Puntervold;Tor Austad

  • Low Salinity EOR Effects in Limestone Reservoir Cores Containing Anhydrite: A Discussion of the Chemical Mechanism

    T. Austad;S. F. Shariatpanahi;S. Strand;H. Aksulu

  • Evaluation of Water-Based Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) by Wettability Alteration in a Low-Permeable Fractured Limestone Oil Reservoir

    Seyed Farzad Shariatpanahi;Skule Strand;Tor Austad

  • Initial Wetting Properties of Carbonate Oil Reservoirs: Effect of the Temperature and Presence of Sulfate in Formation Water

    Seyed Farzad Shariatpanahi;Skule Strand;Tor Austad

  • Modified seawater as a smart EOR fluid in chalk

    Tina Puntervold;Skule Strand;Raed Ellouz;Tor Austad

  • Water-Based Enhanced Oil recovery (EOR) by "Smart Water" in Carbonate Reservoirs

    Seyed Jafar Fathi;Tor Austad;Skule Strand

  • Chemical flooding of oil reservoirs. 4. Effects of temperature and pressure on the middle phase solubilization parameters close to optimum flood conditions

    Tor Austad;Skule Strand

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