| Development of gas assisted gravity drainage (GAGD) process for improved light oil recovery DN Rao, SC Ayirala, MM Kulkarni, AP Sharma SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference?, SPE-89357-MS, 2004 | 154 | 2004 |
| Beneficial effects of wettability altering surfactants in oil-wet fractured reservoirs SC Ayirala, CS Vijapurapu, DN Rao Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 52 (1-4), 261-274, 2006 | 118 | 2006 |
| A designer water process for offshore low salinity and polymer flooding applications S Ayirala, E Uehara-Nagamine, A Matzakos, R Chin, P Doe, ... SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference?, SPE-129926-MS, 2010 | 113 | 2010 |
| Multiphase flow and wettability effects of surfactants in porous media SC Ayirala, DN Rao Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 241 (1-3 …, 2004 | 89 | 2004 |
| Effects of salinity on oil recovery (the “Dilution Effect”): Experimental and theoretical studies of crude oil/brine/carbonate surface restructuring and associated … SY Chen, Y Kaufman, K Kristiansen, D Seo, AM Schrader, MB Alotaibi, ... Energy & Fuels 31 (9), 8925-8941, 2017 | 87 | 2017 |
| Comparative evaluation of a new MMP determination technique SC Ayirala, DN Rao SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference?, SPE-99606-MS, 2006 | 86 | 2006 |
| A new mechanistic Parachor model to predict dynamic interfacial tension and miscibility in multicomponent hydrocarbon systems SC Ayirala, DN Rao Journal of colloid and interface science 299 (1), 321-331, 2006 | 77 | 2006 |
| A state-of-the-art review to develop injection-water-chemistry requirement guidelines for IOR/EOR projects SCC Ayirala, AAA Yousef SPE Production & Operations 30 (01), 26-42, 2015 | 71 | 2015 |
| Surface and subsurface requirements for successful implementation of offshore chemical enhanced oil recovery K Raney, S Ayirala, R Chin, P Verbeek SPE Production & Operations 27 (03), 294-305, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| Measurement of surfactant-induced interfacial interactions at reservoir conditions W Xu, SC Ayirala, DN Rao SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering 11 (01), 83-94, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| Impact of low-cost dilute surfactants on wettability and relative permeability DN Rao, SC Ayirala, AA Abe, W Xu SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference?, SPE-99609-MS, 2006 | 64 | 2006 |
| Comparative evaluation of a new gas/oil miscibility-determination technique SC Ayirala, DN Rao Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology 50 (09), 71-81, 2011 | 61 | 2011 |
| Smartwater synergy with chemical enhanced oil recovery: Polymer effects on smartwater AM AlSofi, J Wang, AM AlBoqmi, MB AlOtaibi, SC Ayirala, AA AlYousef SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering 22 (01), 61-77, 2019 | 59 | 2019 |
| Interfacial behaviour of complex hydrocarbon fluids at elevated pressures and temperatures SC Ayirala, W Xu, DN Rao The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 84 (1), 22-32, 2006 | 58 | 2006 |
| Surfactant-induced relative permeability modifications for oil recovery enhancement SC Ayirala Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, 2002 | 57 | 2002 |
| Water injection systems and methods SCB Ayirala, RWY Chin, AN Matzakos, E Uehara-Nagamine US Patent 9,234,413, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| Dilute surfactants for wettability alteration and enhanced oil recovery in carbonates S Ayirala, A Boqmi, A Alghamdi, A AlSofi IOR 2019–20th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery 2019 (1), 1-15, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Microscopic scale interactions of water ions at crude oil/water interface and their impact on oil mobilization in advanced water flooding SC Ayirala, SH Al-Saleh, AA Al-Yousef Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 163, 640-649, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
| Solubility, miscibility and their relation to interfacial tension in ternary liquid systems SC Ayirala, DN Rao Fluid phase equilibria 249 (1-2), 82-91, 2006 | 48 | 2006 |
| Coalescence of crude oil droplets in brine systems: effect of individual electrolytes SC Ayirala, AA Yousef, Z Li, Z Xu Energy & fuels 32 (5), 5763-5771, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |