... and proved useful in assessing the effectiveness of nanoparticles in both two-phase CO2 storage (CO2 and water) and EOR (CO2 and oil) processes ( Meyer, J.P., Adio, S.A., Sharifpur, M., Nwosu, P.N., 2016 ). Abstract Implementing polymer flooding offshore involves various considerations. Managing large...

... field xy reservoir wettability mathematics of computing complex reservoir enhanced recovery geological subdiscipline concentration simulation depletion optimization polymer flooding Introduction As the resource is continuously exploited, the amount of crude oil resources that can...

... & E&p, 2005) Abstract This technical paper delves into the Application of Smart Well Technology in Polymer Flooding for Heavy Oil Recovery, with a focus on optimizing injection operations for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) in challenging reservoir conditions. The study involves a comprehensive...

... are injected into the reservoir to reduce interfacial tension and improve fluid mobility due to viscosity increase. The synergistic effects of these properties improve oil recovery from these kinds of reservoirs. Polymer flooding involves injecting a chemical called polymer into the reservoir, to increase...

... flooding with a concentration of 0.6 wt% demonstrated the highest efficacy of 77.85% improvement in oil recovery compared to waterflooding. Surfactant flooding, while slightly less effective than polymer flooding, but still showed a remarkable 48.94% increase in oil recovery after waterflooding. However...

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... saturation. However, polymer flooding was designed to improve sweep efficiency by improving the mobility ratio. In Nigeria, EOR materials and technologies are virtually imported, making them limited and expensive to use. This study is aimed at designing and constructing an efficient locally made core...

... Abstract Core Flood analysis is one of the processes that can be deployed towards investigating the property changes associated with the reservoir post polymer flooding. The core flooding system is a test to determine rock permeability and how a core sample will interact with various fluids...

... The essence of the core flooding analysis was to investigate the property changes associated with the reservoir post polymer flooding. The outcome of Rheology experiments associated with these ploymers have been published in my 2021 submission. The core flooding system is a test to determine rock...

... requirement of surface facilities to handle the produced water. To mitigate these challenges and encourage the utilization of local contents, locally produced polymers were used in polymer flooding as an Enhanced Oil Recovery approach to increase the viscosity of the injected fluids for better profile control...

... Abstract In enhancing oil recovery through polymer flooding, the application of polymers have been basically structured around the use of commercial polymers like xanthan gum, scleroglucan, Hydroxyl ethyl cellulose, Polyacrylamide, Hydrolysed Polyacrylamide and its derivatives. The use of some...

... Certain properties affect the performance of a polymer flooding, these include viscosity, salinity, temperature, divalent ions, concentration, shear rate etc. Since the principal function of a polymer solution is to increase the viscosity of the displacing phase, any factor that affects...

... Abstract Polymer play a key role in several EOR processes such as polymer flooding, surfactant-polymer flooding and alkaline-surfactant-polymer flooding due to their critical importance of mobility control in achieving high oil recovery. This high oil recovery is dependent on polymer properties...

... Abstract Nanotechnology has shown enormous progress in the petroleum industry especially in the area of Enhanced Oil Recovery. However, field experience has shown that the major challenge facing polymer flooding is polymer degradation under reservoir conditions such as high temperature and high...

... when water flooding. In such situations, polymer flooding can potentially be a suitable EOR technique that helps to lower water cut and increase recovery. The addition of polymers to the injected water lowers the mobility ratio, thereby reducing viscous fingering and delaying water breakthrough...

...) methods provide an avenue to Petroleum engineers to unravel this challenge. In lieu of this, we investigated the feasibility of improving recovery with polymer flooding technique in the Niger Delta region of the Sub-Sahara Africa. A sequence of brine saturation, oil saturation, water flooding and polymer...

... synthesis. Polymer Flooding Polymer flooding is the use of materials that act as thickeners. These materials are high molecular weight polymers which increases the viscosity of the displacing fluid (water). Thus, prevents viscous fingering and allows more oil to be contacted on macroscopic scale...

... ratio and gather the oil droplet within the reservoir to create an oil bank and mobilize the oil towards the wellbore. In this paper, three different methods or mechanisms of implementing surfactant Polymer flooding were considered. Firstly, for Scheme or Method A, after water flooding, Sodium Dodecyl...

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