Advanced Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques for Unconventional Oil Resources
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H1: Petroleum Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 May 2024 | Viewed by 163
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unconventional oil resources refer to oil produced using techniques other than those used in conventional production. The powerful combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing enables significantly more production from those resources. However, because of the ultra-low permeability and rapid depletion of pore pressure near the hydraulic fractures and wellbore, oil production for most wells declines sharply. It is estimated that the hydrocarbon recovery from these wells is going to be low, typically less than 10%. This Collection is dedicated to the latest research on IOR/EOR for unconventional oil reservoirs, including CO2-EOR, Natural Gas Based EOR, Air injection, Chemical EOR and other cutting-edge EOR techniques that enhance production from shale and tight oil reservoirs. We also welcome submissions on numerical simulations, especially the impact of nanopore confinement and geomechanics coupling on different EOR methods optimization and forecast.
To embrace rapidly evolving solutions and strategies to unconventional reservoir management problems, this timely collection also aims to take a snapshot of current advances in the development of a life-of-field surveillance plan and effective conformance control strategies.
Dr. Abdelazim Abbas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- unconventional oil resources
- IOR/EOR techniques
- shale and tight oil
- CO2-EOR method
- conformance control strategies
- unconventional reservoir management
