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Methodology to Improve Techno-Economic Viability of Surfactant-Flooding in a Shallow Sandstone Heavy Oil Reservoir
Available to PurchaseMohammed Taha Al-Murayri, Abrahim Abdelgadir Hassan, Naser Ammash Al-Ajmi, Nicolas Wartenberg, Aline Delbos, Guillaume Suzanne
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193665-MS
...) or inorganic based i.e. (due to clays and displacement of minerals). Many particles were detected. The systematic chemical analysis of these particles showed that the plugging of the experiment was not bound to the sampling or an alteration of the experimental set-up (Hastelloy alteration) because too few...
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Evaluation of Surfactants Wettability Alteration Using the Washburn Contact Angle Method
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193751-MS
... rock grains was used to calculate the contact angle resulting from that particular surfactant coating. Experimental Materials The materials used for these experiments include the carbonate rock powder, which was crushed and sieved to a mesh size between 80 and 100, corresponding to 150 – 180...
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Experimental Investigation of Steam-Alkali Flooding with Borax: A Case Study on Bati Raman Oil Field
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193797-MS
... Oil production mechanisms have been investigated experimentally and numerically by Jensen (1991) during water and steam flooding in solid and fractured (horizontally and vertically) porous media. Both sandstone and carbonate cores were used in the experiments. The recovery of steam flooding...
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Experimental Study on the Matching Relationship between PPG Size and Reservoir Heterogeneity
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193709-MS
... the length of sandpacks; Δ p represents pressure difference across the core. Experimental Steps The experiment was carried out according to the processes of water injection, PPG injection, and subsequent water injection. The injection rate was 1.0 mL/min.The temperature in our experiment was 70 °C...
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Laboratory Experimental Study on New Polymer in Xinjiang Lukeqin High Temperature and High Salt Reservoir
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193649-MS
..., performance evaluation and displacement research are carried out to evaluate the feasibility of polymer displacement technology. Experiment Experimental materials (1) Polymer The experimental polymers are SWP322 (self-made, effective concentration: 3%), salt-resistant polymer 2500C (molecular...
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Spatial Distribution of Clay Minerals in the Neogene Sediments of North Kuwait and its Impact on Thermal Production
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193711-MS
... characteristics of each depositional facies Various flood experiments were conducted on nine plugs to investigate the effect on permeability in different flooding conditions. This consist of one baseline steam flood with almost fresh water, four sensitivity steam flood testing conducted with different pH (pH...
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Hot Dry Air Diffusion HDAD Technology for Lower Fars Heavy Oil
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193703-MS
... for the experimentation. This mix is sufficient to conduct 30 HDAD experiment-runs. Only 18 experiments is manifested for this study. For each run, the reservoir cell is designed to be 200 gm of which 18 gm brine water, 42 gm heavy crude oil and 140 gm fine sand grains [ Fig. 8 ]. Environmental Analysis The main...
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Microemulsion Flooding of Heavy Oil Using Biodiesel Under Cold Conditions
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193642-MS
... the experiments suggest that aggregation of the small-sized biodiesel droplets of SBDWE (~1μm) at the interface between heavy oil and SBDWE can form a stable emulsion phase. Creaming of SBDWE is a poor emulsification indication and can be avoided by controlling experimental variables such as injected volume...
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Simultaneous Occurrence of Miscible and Immiscible Displacement Processes During Solvent Displacement of Heavy-Oil: A Parametric Analysis Using Micro-Scale Experiments
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193702-MS
.... Experimental Setup Glass-based capillary tubes with diameter of 1.02 mm were utilized to examine the interactions between two miscible fluids, i.e., solvent and viscous oil. A camera (Canon EOS 7D) was used to record the physical processes during the experiments. Oil-based fluorescer was employed to dye...
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Does Polymer's Viscoelasticity Influence Heavy Oil Sweep Efficiency and Injectivity at 1ft/Day?
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193771-MS
... of viscous (shear) resistance and elastic (extensional) resistance of viscoelastic polymer on the mobile heavy oil recovery and injectivity is investigated through the combination of bulk shear/extensional rheology and single phase, and multiphase core flood experiments at typical reservoir flooding rate...
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A New, Fast, and Efficient Method for Evaluating the Influence of Catalysts on In-Situ Combustion Process for Heavy Oil Recovery
Available to PurchaseKamil Sadikov, Chengdong Yuan, Seyed Saeed Mehrabi-Kalajahi, Mikhail A. Varfolomeev, Sarvardzhon A. Talipov
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193758-MS
..., and kinetic parameters (activation energies, pre-exponential factor, etc.). Through these data, one can determine that if catalysts have a catalytic effect on the oxidation process. Using TG can get almost the same information like DSC experiments except that heat effect. Nevertheless, the experimental...
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Study on the Characteristics of Production Performance and Steam Chamber of SAGD Considering Interlayer
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193759-MS
...Experimental Section The physical simulation method is widely used in the research of SAGD, which can be used to reveal the changes of steam chamber, and the results of experiments are more consistent with the actual production situation. Before the numerical simulation study, the physical...
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A Computational Fluid Dynamics Model for Simulating the Rotating Disk Apparatus
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193739-MS
... reaction on the disk surface. Both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids were studied to investigate the adequacy of the equations’ assumptions. To validate the model, simulations were compared with experimental results. Experiments were run at 0.25, 0.5, 1, and 1.25M HCl with marble using the RDA at 250°F...
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Evaluating the Performance of CO 2 Foam and CO 2 Polymer Enhanced Foam for Heavy Oil Recovery: Laboratory Experiments in Unconsolidated and Consolidated Porous Media
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Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193785-MS
... the injection pressure. All the experiments were performed at room temperature (about 22 °C). Five core flood experiments (three fractured and two homogenous core samples) were performed, the experimental parameters are represented in Table 1 . Sandpack test The procedure for fluid saturation was very...
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A Feasibility Study of Hybrid Thermal and Chemical EOR Methods in a Low-Permeability Carbonate Heavy Oil Reservoir with Strong Aquifer Drive
Available to PurchaseMohammed Taha Al-Murayri, Eman Hadad Fadli, Fawziya Mohammad Al-Shati, Ali Qubian, Zhitao Li, Eric Trine, Amir H. Alizadeh, Mojdeh Delshad
Publisher: Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Paper presented at the SPE International Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 10–12, 2018
Paper Number: SPE-193796-MS
... decline in the late stage of the flood. Phase 2 coreflood experiments confirmed that hot polymer flood can effectively enhance oil recovery. In summary, this research study identified sweet spots for oil recovery and EOR applications in the challenging Tayarat reservoir and demonstrated the potential...
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SmartWater Synergy with Chemical EOR for a Slightly Viscous Arabian Heavy Reservoir
Available to PurchaseAbdulkareem M AlSofi, Jinxun Wang, Abdullah M AlBoqmi, Mohammad B AlOtaibi, Subhash C Ayirala, Ali A AlYousef
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Paper presented at the SPE Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 6–8, 2016
Paper Number: SPE-184163-MS
... 5.789 5.989 Diameter, cm 3.793 3.794 3.791 Air Permeability, md 1978 1,994 1620 Porosity, fraction 0.221 0.206 0.213 Methods Different laboratory experiments were performed to evaluate the possible synergy between SmartWater and polymer flooding. The experimental phase...
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High Water Retention in Cyclic Steam Stimulation Wells of Kuwait Heavy Oil Field
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Paper presented at the SPE Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 6–8, 2016
Paper Number: SPE-184154-MS
... saturation was calculated to know the amout of water retention due to hysteresis and temperature. Summary of the experimental results are given in the Table-1 . Table 1 Summary of the Steamflood and Drainage Experiment Results Parameters Experiment-1 Experiment-2 Air permeability, md...
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Artificial Intelligence Recovery Modeling of <5 API Unconventional Next-Generation Heavy Oil Using CHNSO Technology
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Paper presented at the SPE Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 6–8, 2016
Paper Number: SPE-184096-MS
... recoveries considered for this study are bench-scale laboratory physical experiments with toluene, de-ionized water and water-aided surfactants augmented with applied field thermal 25 °C, 135 °C, 225 °C and 315 °C heat treatments. The main objective for this research is to model five signature atoms...
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The Interaction of Asphaltenes with Solvents Water and Clays During Bitumen Extraction through Solvent-Steam Injection
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Paper presented at the SPE Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 6–8, 2016
Paper Number: SPE-184081-MS
... aromatic hydrocarbon) and n-pentane (asphaltene insoluble aliphatic hydrocarbon) addition was observed under the microscope. While toluene completely dissolves asphaltenes immediately, n-pentane leads to asphaltenes precipitation with bigger clusters. After these control experiments, the same tests were...
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Experimental Study for Enhancing Heavy Oil Recovery by Nanofluid Followed by Steam Flooding NFSF
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Paper presented at the SPE Heavy Oil Conference and Exhibition, December 6–8, 2016
Paper Number: SPE-184117-MS
... such as temperature and pressure, as well as maintaining the experiment at the prespecified experimental conditions. Core flood test The experiments were conducted following the aforementioned procedure using only the nanofluids: zirconium dioxide (ZrO 2 ), titanium oxide (TiO 2 ), zincs oxide (ZnO), and iron...
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