Characterization of alkali-surfactant-polymer slugs using synthesized gemini surfactant for potential application in enhanced oil recovery

N Pal, N Saxena, A Mandal - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study deals with the formulation and characterization of alkali-surfactant-
polymer slugs using gemini surfactant (GS) for effective application in enhanced oil recovery …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of an improved polymer flooding scheme by compositionally-tuned slugs

R Santoso, V Torrealba, H Hoteit - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Polymer flooding is an effective enhanced oil recovery technology used to reduce the
mobility ratio and improve sweep efficiency. A new polymer injection scheme is investigated …

Multi-objective history matching of surfactant-polymer flooding

S Aramideh, R Borgohain, PK Naik, CT Johnston… - Fuel, 2018 - Elsevier
Surfactant-polymer flooding is an effective process in extracting most of the original oil in
place remained after conventional water flooding process. However, this technique is …

An analysis of physical models and numerical schemes for polymer flooding simulations

B Braconnier, C Preux, E Flauraud, QH Tran… - ECMOR XV-15th …, 2016 - earthdoc.org
Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery processes (CEOR) are nowadays commonly used by
engineers to improve the recovery factor of an oil field. In this paper, we propose to …

Foam processes in naturally fractured carbonate oil-wet reservoirs: technical and economic analysis and optimization

S Bouquet, F Douarche, F Roggero… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the recent years, foam process has shown a growing potential in producing naturally
fractured reservoirs. While much effort was devoted to fractured reservoir characterization …

Bayesian model calibration and optimization of surfactant-polymer flooding

P Naik, P Pandita, S Aramideh, I Bilionis… - Computational …, 2019 - Springer
The physical models governing surfactant-polymer (SP) flooding process are subject to
parametric uncertainties, accurate quantification of which is crucial for improved decision …

Chemical Compaction as the Driving Mechanism for Reservoir Quality Variation in an Early Cretaceous Middle Eastern Carbonate Reservoir.

C Sellar, A Vrsic, D Contreras… - Abu Dhabi International …, 2020 - onepetro.org
Reservoir 2 shows the same vertical facies stacking pattern across Oilfield A. These facies
are observed to be laterally continuous across other oilfields in Abu Dhabi. Multi-scale static …

Numerical assessment and optimization of foam-based EOR processes in naturally fractured carbonate oil-wet reservoirs

S Bouquet, F Douarche, F Roggero… - IOR 2019–20th …, 2019 - earthdoc.org
In the recent years, foam process has shown a growing potential in producing naturally
fractured reservoirs. While much effort was devoted to fractured reservoir characterization …

Impact of Temperature on the Design of Surfactant EOR Pilots: New Findings Using Advanced Simulation

A Soulat, D Ding, F Douarche - Abu Dhabi International Petroleum …, 2020 - onepetro.org
Prior to field-scale development of chemical EOR processes, pilot tests are widely accepted
in the oil industry as a standard method to determine the efficiency of the formulated …

Coreflood Model Optimization Workflow for ASP Pilot Design Risk Analysis

O Borozdina, M Mamaghani, R Barsalou… - SPE Middle East Oil …, 2019 - onepetro.org
This work presents a new workflow to obtain a better-constrained reservoir-scale model for
an Alkaline-Surfactant-Polymer (ASP) injection pilot design. It is explained how the impact of …