[HTML][HTML] Polymer flooding: Current status and future directions

RS Seright, D Wang - Petroleum Science, 2023 - Elsevier
This review presents our perspective on the factors that have brought polymer flooding to its
current state. Insights are provided on why HPAM is the dominant polymer used as well as …

Literature review of implemented polymer field projects

DC Standnes, I Skjevrak - Journal of petroleum science and engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
Polymer flooding is a mature enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology applied in field
projects as early as the late 1950s. There exists extensive amount of experience, know-how …

Lessons learned from alkali/surfactant/polymer-flooding field tests in China

H Guo, Y Li, D Kong, R Ma, B Li, F Wang - SPE Reservoir Evaluation & …, 2019 - onepetro.org
Although the alkali/surfactant/polymer (ASP) flooding technique used for enhanced oil
recovery (EOR) was put forward many years ago, it was not until 2014 that it was first put into …

Effect of dissolved iron and oxygen on stability of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide polymers

RSS Seright, I Skjevrak - SPE journal, 2015 - onepetro.org
This paper describes an experimental study of the stability of a hydrolyzed polyacrylamide
(HPAM) polymer and an HPAM-2-acrylamido-tertbutylsulfonic acid (ATBS) terpolymer in the …

Recent advances in polymer flooding in China: lessons learned and continuing development

H Guo, K Song, S Liu, F Zhao, Z Wang, Y Xu, J Liu… - SPE Journal, 2021 - onepetro.org
Polymer flooding is one of the most promising chemical enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR)
techniques. It offers a high incremental-oil-recovery factor (IORF), low cost, and wide …

Visible light photocatalytic degradation of HPAM polymer in oil produced water using supported zinc oxide nanorods

J Al-Sabahi, T Bora, M Claereboudt, M Al-Abri… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Polymer flooding displacement ability during petroleum extraction from the earth's crust
plays an important role in enhanced oil recovery processes. Produced water, as a …

A comparison of polymer flooding with in-depth profile modification

R Seright, G Zhang, O Akanni, D Wang - Journal of Canadian …, 2012 - onepetro.org
For stratified reservoirs with free crossflow and where fractures do not cause severe
channeling, improved sweep is often needed after water breakthrough. For moderately …

Fundamentals and recent progress in the flow of water-soluble polymers in porous media for enhanced oil recovery

M Mirzaie Yegane, PE Boukany, P Zitha - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to increased energy demand, it is vital to enhance the recovery from existing oilfields.
Polymer flooding is the most frequently used chemical enhanced oil recovery (cEOR) …

Retention of Surfactant by Solid–Liquid Interaction and the Process of Improving Oil Recovery by Inducing Hydrophilic Particles

R Saha, R Phukan - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surfactants when interacted with reservoir rock surfaces undergo adsorption, which can
intensively break the process by diluting surfactant formulation, thereby promoting additional …

Effective propagation of HPAM solutions through the Tambaredjo reservoir during a polymer flood

RNN Manichand, KPP Moe Soe Let, L Gil… - SPE Production & …, 2013 - onepetro.org
Two new methods were developed for anaerobically sampling polymer solutions from
production wells in the Sarah Maria polymer-flood-pilot project in Suriname. Whereas …