Impact of Methylene Blue on Enhancing the Hydrocarbon Potential of Early Cambrian Khewra Sandstone Formation from the Potwar Basin, Pakistan
Muhammad Ali, Abdul Majeed Shar, Nurudeen Yekeen, Hussein Abid, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Hussein Hoteit · 2023
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Description
Muhammad Ali and co-authors test a common blue dye as a tool to free trapped oil from sandstone in Pakistan, in a study from two thousand twenty-three. Much oil stays stuck after standard recovery, and rock soaked in organic acids repels water. The team aged rock samples in acid, then soaked them in dye solutions.
Heat, pressure, and salt all pushed the rock toward oil-loving behavior. Dye soaks flipped the rock back toward water-loving, which favors oil release. The strongest dye bath gave the biggest flip. Since the dye is a waste product in huge amounts, the authors pitch it as a cheap recovery aid.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Muhammad Ali, Abdul Majeed Shar, Nurudeen Yekeen, Hussein Abid, Muhammad Shahzad Kamal, Hussein Hoteit |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |