... injection are showing up in the literature. As we move forward, it is expected that the waterflooding recovery factor will increase with additional technology advancements. Recommended additional reading at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org SPE 209426 - Impact of Brine Chemistry on Waterflood Oil Recovery...

... of Petroleum, et al. The paper has not been peer reviewed. One of the most attractive carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) applications in China is that of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) enhanced oil recovery with captured CO 2 (CCS EOR). CO 2 EOR with captured CO 2 presents an important path for China...

... of polymerflooding applications to lower-permeability (average 100 md) and highly heterogeneous reservoirs. Fiber-optics data acquisition has demonstrated clearly injection conformance improvement during the switch from water injection to polymer. In addition, approximately 10% of incremental oil recovery...

...Sunil Kokal In this article, I will focus on chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR). What is its current status, and what is its future? Chemical EOR is defined as the addition of a chemical to injection water for enhancing oil recovery. Typically, and traditionally, there are three types...

...Chris Carpenter This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 201586, “Effect of Silica Nanoparticles on Oil Recovery During Alternating Injection With Low-Salinity Water and Surfactant Into Carbonate Reservoirs,” by Saheed Olawale Olayiwola, SPE...

... Zadeh, Equinor, prepared for the 2020 SPE Europec featured at the 82nd EAGE Conference and Exhibition, originally scheduled to be held in Amsterdam, 8–11 June. The paper has not been peer reviewed. A combination of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and storage schemes could offer...

...Chris Carpenter This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 200316, “Joint Optimization of Well Completions and Controls for CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage,” by Bailian Chen, SPE, and Rajesh Pawar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, prepared...

... take a few months to complete. For a generation, this has been considered time well spent by anyone preparing to invest millions of dollars to prop up an aged asset through gas-injection-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR). But the times are changing. Interface Fluidics’ innovation, which it developed...

...Judy Feder This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Judy Feder, contains highlights of paper SPE 196498, “First Natural Dumpflood in Malaysia: A Successful Breakthrough for Maximizing Oil Recovery in an Offshore Environment With Low-Cost Secondary Recovery,” by Muhammad Abdulhadi, SPE, Toan...

... help improve parent-well production remains unclear. The complete paper presents a strategy for selecting a surfactant/solvent package for parent wells. Oil recovery and associated water saturation in the microfluidic-based device, with or without surfactant, are quantified and reveal that the oil...

... first attempt at cyclic­gas injection, an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method more commonly called huff ’n’ puff (HnP). Instead, the heavy equipment sits idle and the blueprints of the EOR program remain on the shelf as the operator restructures a debt load of more than $7 billion under...

..., including enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) operations and looking for capital-efficient ways to increase the resource base in existing assets. In the longer term, the outlook for EOR, at first sight, might seem to be particularly challenged in the face of the energy transition. This is because of both the effect...

...-purchasing strategy; nonetheless, effective technology such as an autonomous inflow control valve could also benefit the operating expenditure (OPEX) savings by enhancing oil recovery and reducing processing costs of excessive unwanted water and gas in surface facilities. OPEX comprises labor, chemicals...

.... In this paper, the authors consider the effect of water chemistry on water/rock interactions during seawater and smart waterflooding of reservoir sandstone cores containing heavy oil. Oil recovery, surface-reactivity tests, and multicomponent reactive-transport simulation were conducted to understand smart...

... saturation. The gas huff ‘n’ puff process has demonstrated potential in improving recovery from tight oil reservoirs. The objective of the study described in this paper was to investigate the feasibility of huff ‘n’ puff enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in a•gas-condensate reservoir. Introduction Compositional...

... plan, a comprehensive enhanced oil recovery (EOR) screening study was performed that explored the range of available EOR techniques. On the basis of these studies, WAG injection was identified as one of the more-promising EOR options for the field. Additional studies performed in 2006 and 2007...

... Technology Focus EOR Operation gas flood chemical flooding methods OnePetro june 2019 JPT University Oil Recovery 78 JPT JUNE 2019 In the March edition of JPT, a series of articles looked at professional pride. Reading them made me reflect on my own career and consider what have been my best...

... for the 2018 SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Tulsa, 14–18 April. The paper has not been peer reviewed. Previously proposed models of wettability change have not been tied to the chemistry that controls wettability but instead were driven by simplistic criteria such as salinity level or concentration...

...Chris Carpenter This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 186431, “Waterflooding Optimization: A Pragmatic and Cost-Effective Approach To Improve Oil Recovery From Mature Fields,” by X.G. Lu, SPE, and J. Xu, C&C Reservoirs, prepared...

... oil recovery by water-injection optimization using injection-control devices (ICDs) in unconventional reservoirs. In late 2016, a trial campaign began in southeastern Saskatchewan that applied ICDs in relatively low-flow-rate environments to offset production decline and improve recovery. Early-term...