Vladimir Alvarado

Overview

Best Publications

• Enhanced Oil Recovery: An Update Review

  Vladimir Alvarado;Eduardo Manrique

  1337
  Citations

• EOR: Current Status and Opportunities

  Eduardo Jose Manrique;Charles Philip Thomas;Ravi Ravikiran;Mehdi Izadi Kamouei

  321
  Citations

• Enhanced Oil Recovery: Field Planning and Development Strategies

  V. Alvarado;E. Manrique

  233
  Citations

• Effect of Salinity on Water-in-Crude Oil Emulsion: Evaluation through Drop-Size Distribution Proxy

  M. Moradi;V. Alvarado;S. Huzurbazar

  214
  Citations

• Effect of nanoparticles/nanofluids on the rheology of heavy crude oil and its mobility on porous media at reservoir conditions

  Esteban A. Taborda;Camilo A. Franco;Sergio H. Lopera;Vladimir Alvarado

  197
  Citations

• Flow of oil–water emulsions through a constricted capillary

  S. Cobos;M.S. Carvalho;V. Alvarado

  197
  Citations

• Pore Scale and Macroscopic Displacement Mechanisms in Emulsion Flooding

  V. R. Guillen;M. S. Carvalho;V. Alvarado

  155
  Citations

• Experimental and Theoretical Study of Viscosity Reduction in Heavy Crude Oils by Addition of Nanoparticles

  Esteban A. Taborda;Camilo A. Franco;Marco A. Ruiz;Vladimir Alvarado

  152
  Citations

• The effects of SiO2 nanoparticles on the thermal stability and rheological behavior of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide based polymeric solutions

  Lady J. Giraldo;Maria A. Giraldo;Sebastian Llanos;Gustavo Maya

  140
  Citations

• Fractal Dimensions from Mercury Intrusion Capillary Tests

  R.F. Angulo;V. Alvarado;H. Gonzalez

  139
  Citations

• Opportunities of Downhole Dielectric Heating in Venezuela: Three Case Studies Involving Medium, Heavy and Extra-Heavy Crude Oil Reservoirs

  Cesar Ovalles;Anyaleth Fonseca;Ali Lara;Vladimir Alvarado

  134
  Citations

• Selection of EOR/IOR Opportunities Based on Machine Learning

  Vladimir Alvarado;Aaron Ranson;Karen Hernandez;Eduardo Manrique

  131
  Citations

• Interfacial tension and contact angle measurements for hydrogen-methane mixtures/brine/oil-wet rocks at reservoir conditions

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  131
  Citations

• Effects of asphaltenes and organic acids on crude oil-brine interfacial visco-elasticity and oil recovery in low-salinity waterflooding

  Griselda Garcia-Olvera;Teresa M. Reilly;Teresa E. Lehmann;Vladimir Alvarado

  129
  Citations

• Interfacial Visco-Elasticity of Crude Oil - Brine: An Alternative EOR Mechanism in Smart Waterflooding

  Vladimir Alvarado;Mehrnoosh Moradi Bidhendi;Griselda Garcia-Olvera;Brendon Morin

  125
  Citations

• Dynamic flow response of crude oil-in-water emulsion during flow through porous media

  Mehrnoosh Moradi;Mahdi Kazempour;Joshua T. French;Vladimir Alvarado

  109
  Citations

• Stability Proxies for Water-in-Oil Emulsions and Implications in Aqueous-based Enhanced Oil Recovery

  Vladimir Alvarado;Xiuyu Wang;Mehrnoosh Moradi

  104
  Citations

• Rheological demonstration of alteration in the heavy crude oil fluid structure upon addition of nanoparticles

  Esteban A. Taborda;Vladimir Alvarado;Camilo A. Franco;Farid B. Cortés

  101
  Citations

• Interfacial Viscoelasticity of Crude Oil/Brine: An Alternative Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Mechanism in Smart Waterflooding

  Mehrnoosh Moradi Bidhendi;Griselda Garcia-Olvera;Brendon Morin;John S. Oakey

  98
  Citations

• Capillary-driven mobility control in macro emulsion flow in porous media

  Victor Raul Guillen;Mao Illich Romero;Marcio da Silveira Carvalho;Vladimir Alvarado

  94
  Citations

• Experiments and network model of flow of oil-water emulsion in porous media.

  Mao Illich Romero;Marcio S. Carvalho;Vladimir Alvarado

  90
  Citations

• Impact of ionic strength on partitioning of naphthenic acids in water–crude oil systems – Determination through high-field NMR spectroscopy

  Mehrnoosh Moradi;Elena Topchiy;Teresa E. Lehmann;Vladimir Alvarado

  87
  Citations

• ASP design for the Minnelusa formation under low-salinity conditions: Impacts of anhydrite on ASP performance

  Casey S. Gregersen;Mahdi Kazempour;Vladimir Alvarado

  76
  Citations

• A microfluidic flow focusing platform to screen the evolution of crude oil–brine interfacial elasticity

  Brendon Morin;Yafei Liu;Vladimir Alvarado;John Oakey

  74
  Citations

• Interfacial rheological insights of sulfate-enriched smart-water at low and high-salinity in carbonates

  Griselda Garcia-Olvera;Vladimir Alvarado

  74
  Citations

• Economic Co-optimization of Oil Recovery and CO2 Sequestration

  Klaas van 't Veld;Xiao Wang;Vladimir Alvarado

  6
  Citations