Modern Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery

Describes the developments in the area as well as the technology for enhancing oil recovery. This book provides important case studies related to over one hundred EOR pilot and field applications in a variety of oil fields, focusing on practical problems, underlying theoretical and modelling methods, and more.

Autorentext
James Sheng is currently a professor in petroleum engineering at Texas Tech University specializing in oil recovery research. Previously, he was a Senior Research Engineer with Total E&P USA, Team Leader Scientist with Baker Hughes, and a reservoir engineer with Shell, Kuwait Oil Company, and the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development in China. James has authored 2 books, both with Elsevier, over 70 articles, presented over 100 papers worldwide, and earned 4 patents to date. He earned a PhD and MSc from the University of Alberta, and a BSc from the University of Petroleum in China, all in petroleum engineering.

Klappentext

EOR continues to have an important place in oil production, in view of the escalating energy demand and the tight supply. It is suggested that much research is needed to develop technologies for recovering over two-thirds of the oil that will remain unrecovered in reservoirs. This book is about the recent developments in the area as well as the technology for enhancing oil recovery. The book provides important case studies related to over one hundred EOR pilot and field applications in a variety of oil fields. These case studies focus on practical problems, underlying theoretical and modeling methods, operational parameters (e.g., injected chemical concentration, slug sizes, flooding schemes and well spacing), solutions and sensitivity studies, and performance optimization strategies.

Inhalt

1. Mobility Control2. Polymer Flooding3. Surfactant Flooding4. Surfactant-Polymer Flooding (SP)5. Alkaline Flooding6. Alkaline-Polymer Flooding7. Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer Flooding (ASP)8. Foam Flooding9. Numerical Simulation of Chemical EOR Processes

   Appendix A - Periodic Table of the ElementsAppendix B - Chemistry BasicsAppendix C - Fluid and Rock Property Data and Supporting Data for Chemical EOR