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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Enhance Oil Recovery"”.
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Comprehensive evaluation of a novel EOR method-coupling low salinity water flooding and preformed particle gel to enhance oil recovery in fractured reservoirs
<p>"Excess water production in oil fields is becoming a challenging economic and environmental problem as more reservoirs are maturing. Water channeling, one of the primary reservoir conformance problems, is caused by reservoir heterogeneities that lead to the development of high-permeability …
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Discovering Relationships between Reservoir Properties and Production Data for CHOPS Using Data Mining Methods
Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) produces sand, and greatly contributes to primary oil recovery. It’s generally believed that wormholes, resulting from sand flow, enhance oil recovery in this process. However, due to complexity and variability, it’s difficult for wormhole models to …
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Single Well Completion and Management Strategies for Enhanced Recovery of Tight Oil Using Miscible Gas Injection
Tight oil production relies on the multiple transverse fracture horizontal well completion design with 50 or more parallel propped hydraulic fractures distributed along a long horizontal well. Less than 10% primary oil recovery from these wells creates a strong incentive for enhancing recovery from …
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Adsorption-Mediated Fluid Transport at the Nanoscale
Injecting CO2 into unconventional reservoirs to enhance oil recovery has been widely studied due to its potential to improve the profitability of these reservoirs. CO2 Huff-n-Puff is emerging as a promising method, but exploiting its full potential is challenging due to difficulties in optimizing …
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Quantification of swelling clays in mineral mixtures and rocks using infrared spectroscopy.
… composition of fluids injected into the rock to enhance oil recovery. In the first study, the capability of PLS with DRIFTS was demonstrated when low quantities of swelling mineral, smectite, were determined in synthetic mixtures with the non-swelling mineral, kaolinite, and an additional …
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Experimental investigation of imbibition in oil-wet carbonates under low IFT conditions
… naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs with an oil-wet matrix generate very low oil production. Surfactants enhance oil recovery in these reservoirs by altering wettability and reducing interfacial tension (IFT). The main purpose of this research was to determine how to scale up low IFT …
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Experimental investigation of the effect of nanoparticles and polymer on interfacial tension between oil and water during Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)
… industries, and the interest in it within the oil industry is increasing, due to its potential to deeply change enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and to improve the mechanism of recovery. With the decline in oil discoveries during the last decades, it is believed that EOR technologies will play a key …
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Dynamic and Static CO2 Mass Transfer Processes in Bulk Heavy Oil and Heavy Oil Saturated Porous Media
… contribution of solvents to the production of oil has become more cardinal, as production from the reservoirs have advanced from primary oil production to secondary and tertiary methods. Vapour extraction (VAPEX), CO2 flooding, CO2 Huff-and-Puff are some of the solvent based approaches used in …
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The Impact of Surface Modified Nanoparticles on the Performance of Polymer Solutions for Heavy Oil Recovery
The use of polymer flooding as an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method to achieve a more uniform volumetric sweep of the reservoir has increased over the past ten years. However, chemical, thermal and mechanical degradation of the polymers reduce their viscosity, which affects their performance. …