Enhanced Oil Recovery Methods From Oil Reservoirs
- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Recovery and production mechanisms
- Why are the combined primary and secondary
recovery factors so low?
- Displacement efficiency and/or the sweep efficiency in microscopic and macroscopic scales
- Areal Sweep Efficiency and Vertical Sweep Efficiency
- How can EV be improved?
- How ED can be improved?
- Technical-Economical Evaluation of EOR processes
- EOR processes classification
- Linear flooding; Fractional flow theory and its development to determine breakthrough time and production enhancement
- Ploymer flooding for mobility control; operational/mathematical introduction and calculation of recovery factors
- Chemical flooding to reduce interfacial tension; Operationl/mathematical introduction and calculation of recovery efficiency
- Miscible flooding; First contact miscibility and multiple contact miscibility
- 1.Vaporizing gas drive
2.Condensing gas drive
- Viscous fingering and its influence on flow unstablity; mathematical analysis
- Effect of Gravity Segregation & layer heterogenity on Vertical Sweep in Horizontal Displacement