TY - CHAP AU - Hisham Ben Mahmud AU - Shattia Arumugam AU - Walid Mahmud ED - Ariffin Samsuri Y1 - 2019-09-12 PY - 2019 T1 - Potential of Low-Salinity Waterflooding Technology to Improve Oil Recovery N2 - Concerned with production decline, shortages of new oil reserves, and increasing world energy demand, the oil sector continues to search for economic and efficient techniques to enhance their oil recovery from the existing oil field using several enhanced oil recovery techniques (EOR)methods. Despite its highefficiency, widely acclaimed potentials, and limitations, the Low Salinity Water Flooding (LSWF), hybrid, and nanotechnology applications have gained vast interest with promising future to increase ultimate oil recovery, tackle operational challenges, reduce environmental damage, and allow the highest feasible recoveries with lower production costs. This synergistic combination has opened new routes for novel materials with fascinating properties. This book aims to provide an overview of EOR technology such as LSWF, hybrid, and nanotechnology applications in EOR processes. BT - Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88082 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.88082 SN - 978-1-78985-108-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -