Using Polymer Alternating Gas to Enhance Oil Recovery in Heavy Oil

An Experimental Study of CO2-low Salinity Water Alternating Gas Injection in Sandstone Heavy Oil Reservoirs

Several studies have shown that oil recovery significantly increased by low salinity water flooding (LSWF) in sandstones. However, mechanism of oil recovery improvement is still controversial. CO2 that develops buffer in presence of water is expected as a deterrent factor in LSWF efficiency based on mechanism of IFT reduction due to pH uprising. No bright evidence in literature suppo...

Theory of Three-phase Flow Applied to Water-alternating-gas Enhanced Oil Recovery

Polymer Flood Application to Improve Heavy Oil Recovery at East Bodo

Pengrowth has targeted East Bodo (Alberta side) and Cosine (Saskatchewan side) for waterflood optimization and subsequent enhanced oil recovery applications. Currently, the most practical EOR technology for this heavy oil reservoir seems to be the polymer flood technology in combination with horizontal wells. Several investigators(1-4) have demonstrated the potential of the polymer flood techno...

Microbial enhanced heavy crude oil recovery through biodegradation using bacterial isolates from an Omani oil field

BACKGROUND Biodegradation is a cheap and environmentally friendly process that could breakdown and utilizes heavy crude oil (HCO) resources. Numerous bacteria are able to grow using hydrocarbons as a carbon source; however, bacteria that are able to grow using HCO hydrocarbons are limited. In this study, HCO degrading bacteria were isolated from an Omani heavy crude oil field. They were then id...

an experimental study of co2-low salinity water alternating gas injection in sandstone heavy oil reservoirs

several studies have shown that oil recovery significantly increased by low salinity water flooding (lswf) in sandstones. however, mechanism of oil recovery improvement is still controversial. co2 that develops buffer in presence of water is expected as a deterrent factor in lswf efficiency based on mechanism of ift reduction due to ph uprising. no bright evidence in literature supports this id...