Well head production of petroleum can be significantly affected by flocculation, deposition, and plugging of asphaltene inside the well. The economic implications of such formation damages are tremendous. To prevent deposition inside the reservoir...

micro-model and sandstone cores show that sodium silicate effectively enhances water imbibition rate and final oil recovery factor. This is more evident in the case of asphaltenic oils, first because sodium silicate reduction of IFT is considerably...

The precipitation and deposition of crude oil polar fractions such as asphaltenes in petroleum reservoirs reduce considerably the rock permeability and the oil recovery. Therefore, it is of great importance to determine “how much” the asphaltenes...