improved oil recovery (IOR)
Sand Production during Improved Oil Recovery in Unconsolidated Cores
... for improved oil recovery (IOR) in heavy oil ...the oil viscosity and causes the velocity of the moving oil to increase; and thus, the heated zone around the injection well will ...
5
Improved oil recovery by application of ultrasonic stimulated waterflooding
... an improved oil recovery (IOR) method starts in the early 50’s when noises from the railroad trains and earthquakes resulted in increasing oil ...
16
Analysis of a model for foam improved oil recovery
... the oil; they tend to rise to the top of the reservoir and override most of the ...Foam improved oil recovery (abbreviated here as ‘foam IOR’) can address the problems of viscous instability, ...
64
Modelling foam improved oil recovery within a heterogeneous reservoir
... The displacement of foam within a heterogeneous reservoir during foam improved oil recovery is described with the pressure-driven growth model. The pressure-driven growth model has previously been ...
35
Foam improved oil recovery : foam front displacement in the presence of slumping
... Foam is often used in improved oil recovery processes to displace oil from an un- derground reservoir. During the process, the reservoir is flooded with surfactant, and then gas is injected to ...
26
Foam improved oil recovery : modelling the effect of an increase in injection pressure
... We have presented numerical and analytical results, us- ing the pressure-driven growth model, for a case with a sudden increase in the driving pressure during the pro- cess of foam improved oil ...
7
Investigating Improved Oil Recovery in Heavy Oil Reservoirs
... heavy oil reservoir is nearly or altogether depleted, the recovery factor does not exceed about ...heavy oil reservoirs do not produce at all by natural drive ...augment recovery. Prior to ...
9
RESEARCH ON CO2 FLOODING FOR IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY IN WATER FLOODING ABANDONED RESERVOIRS
... and the diameter is 2.5 cm. The pore volume of core is 252.4 cm 3 , and the average permeability is 245.5×10 -3 μm 2 . The irreducible water saturation was 21.23%. The property of water and oil used in laboratory ...
8
Improved Oil Recovery
... A well planned set of well-bore logs (inclusive where necessary, Sonic, Density and CMR), in conjunction with cores, drill cuttings and mud logger, can provide a tremen[r] ...
5
Enhanced Oil Recovery by using Polymer Flooding in Oil and Gas Industry in Tertiary Recovery Process
... economic improved oil recovery method, though by definition polymer flooding does not increase the microscopic sweep efficiency of the reservoir ...crude oil and polymer solution may be ...
10
Evaluate horizontal well production performance in heavy oil reservoirs
... the recovery factor nearly reaches ...result, improved oil recovery is introduced as a strategy to increase oil ...an improved oil recovery process in a field, it ...
5
Heavy Oil Recovery: Environmental Implications and Mitigation Measures
... Many heavy-oil reservoirs in Canada are relatively small, thin and are not good candidates for expensive thermal recovery methods. This has made Polymer, Alkali and Surfactant flooding relevant for thin and ...
5
Recovery of Oil and Pectin from Citrus Limetta
... peel oil has been chosen for extraction[11,13] because it provides a great potential for further commercial ...contain oil that is typically recovered as major ...the oil and that are responsible for ...
7
The optimization of Cu and Fe bioleaching from converter slag using Acidithiobacilus ferrooxidans
... leaching and bioleaching results showed that bioleaching improved the recovery yields of Fe and Cu by 26% and 33%, respectively. The modified shrinking core model was used to determine the rate- limiting ...
9
Factors influencing early withdrawal from a drug and alcohol treatment program and client perceptions of successful recovery and employment: a qualitative study
... what recovery success looks like for ...Kingdom. Recovery success was found to manifest in various ways including improvements in psychological well-being, relationships, accommodation and employ- ment, as ...
11
Oil recovery and characterization of bottom tank oily sludge from brega oil refinery in libya by solvent extraction
... the oil components than for the solvent. Concentrations of oil in the solvent phase are highest when small amounts of solvent are used, as is illustrated in Figures 13 and ...recovered oil from one ...
15
Catalytic hydrothermal upgrading of pyrolysis oil
... 3g of bio-oil was loaded into the batch type reactor followed by 2g of formic acid and 1g of the catalyst. Other two loadings were done with 3g bio-oil but with formic acid (FA) and with no formic acid ...
10
Co2 Miscible Flooding For Enhanced Oil Recovery
... optimal recovery and hence maximize ...on recovery were ...various oil productions with the view of determining the well placement pattern that will maximize oil ...
7
Research and Application of Water Flooding Timing and Method for Blocky Bottom Water Fractured Buried Hill Reservoir
... timing, oil recovery rate and water flooding mode in buried hill reservoirs were carried ...The oil recovery is the highest when the water injection period is 4 ...
10
Application of algorithm of runge kutta method in microbial entrained oil recovery in oil wells of Niger delta in Nigeria
... Most oil wells are left over for years without production, not that these oil wells do not have needed ...these oil wells can be made to produce again with the influence of microbial entrained ...
7