PhD thesis in Petroleum engineering
This thesis is based on the following papers, not yet available in UiS Brage due to copyright:
PAPER 1: Ravari, Reza Rostami ; Austad, Tor ; Strand, Skule ; Puntervold, Tina (2008). New Method to Clean Carbonate Reservoir Cores by Seawater, Paper SCA2008-15 presented at the International Symposium of the Society
of Core Analysts, Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 29-November 02, 2008. http://www.scaweb.org/assets/papers/2008_papers/SCA2008-15.pdf
PAPER 2: Ravari, Reza Rostami ; Austad, Tor ; Strand, Skule (2010). Care Must be Taken to Use Outcrop Limestone Cores to Mimic
Reservoir Core Material in SCAL Linked to Wettability Alteration, Paper presented at the 11th International Symposium on Reservoir Wettability,
Calgary, Canada, September 6-9, 2010.
PAPER 3: Ravari, Reza Rostami ; Austad, Tor ; Strand, Skule (2011). Water-Based EOR from a Low-Permeability Fractured Limestone
by Wettability Alteration, Paper presented at the 16th European Symposium on improved oil recovery IOR 2011, Cambridge, UK.
PAPER 4: Ravari, Reza Rostami ; Austad, Tor ; Strand, Skule (2011). Combined Surfactant-Enhanced Gravity Drainage (SEGD) of Oil
and the Wettability Alteration in Carbonates: The Effect of Rock Permeability and Interfacial Tension (IFT). Energy & Fuels, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 2083-2088. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ef200085t