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Nanoemulsions: composition, properties, production methods, and prospects for oil recovery

A. V. Minakov, O. P. Stebeleva

Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

Abstract: The global demand for energy necessitates an increase in the oil production efficiency in oil fields by means of enhanced oil recovery methods. Nanoemulsion technologies attract attention in the oil and gas industry as a way for improvement of the existing enhanced oil recovery methods. Nanoemulsion flooding is promising owing to the properties of nanoemulsions such as kinetic stability, controlled interfacial behaviour, and tunable rheology. However, nanoemulsion flooding is not widely used in oil fields as yet. There are only a few known pilot studies, which are described in this review. Nanoemulsion systems continue to rapidly develop: new generations of compositions with modified architectures and improved stability appeared in the last four years, but have not yet been systematized. This review is meant to fill this gap in the field of enhanced oil recovery, including analysis of alternative methods for the synthesis of nanoemulsions, by considering the benefits of fundamental and engineering aspects as well as drawbacks that hamper further development of this area and addressing the data unification issue.
The bibliography includes 273 references.

Keywords: nanoemulsion flooding, enhanced oil recovery methods, nanoparticles, nanoemulsions, surfactants, polymers, rheology, interfacial tension.

Received: 31.03.2025

DOI: 10.59761/RCR5176

 English version: Russian Chemical Reviews, 2025, 94:8, 1–33

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